LATimes.com Opinion

  • This app misses the point

    This app misses the point

    Almost 6,000 migrants have died in the Arizona desert since the mid-1990s, when border enforcement in California was tightened and migration routes shifted east into barren, deadly territory. Today, migrants are 17 times more likely to die while crossing the border than they were in 1998. Despite... more

  • Overhauling No Child Left Behind

    Overhauling No Child Left Behind

    If the No Child Left Behind Act is to be overhauled -- and it should be -- the new version should strip away the law's overly prescriptive notions of what constitutes improvement and impose fairer ways of holding schools accountable. Though some of the fixes outlined Monday by the Obama... more

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