Rishawn Biddle

When it comes to sports these days, Michigan residents hardly have much to celebrate. Save for the Red Wings, the state has seen the recent decline of the Detroit Pistons into the cellar, the perpetual woes of the football Lions…

Twenty-seven percent of New Jersey’s 17-to-20 year old high school grads applying to enter the military flunked the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, the test potential recruits must take for successful enlistment. Essentially, one out of every four Garden State…

For President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, incoming House Education and Labor Committee Chairman John Kline will likely be as much a thorn in their school reform efforts as the National Education Association and the American…

Barack Obama managed a spectacular feat last year when he convinced fellow congressional Democrats to set aside $5 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for what became his Race to the Top school reform initiative. Obama won some…

If you are a sports fan — or just a follower of such woe-begotten teams as the New York Mets, New Jersey Devils and my Washington Redskins — you would think Philadelphia residents would have plenty to celebrate. After all,…

California taxpayers have almost become immune to stories about the high cost of generous defined-benefit pensions, employer-subsidized healthcare plans, job protections and degree- and seniority-based pay scales struck by the state, school districts, and affiliates of the National Education Association…

One thing is perfectly clear after Tuesday’s midterm elections: The long-and-fruitful relationship between Democrats and teachers unions is no longer mutually beneficial. Congressional Democrats angered centrist school reformers, MoveOn.org-style progressives, and other party activists in August when they voted to…

Even in an election year in which Democrats in swing states are losing re-election by wide margins, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet would seem to be a shoo-in for a full term. Since his appointment last year by Gov. Bill…

President Barack Obama and his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, have spent the past two years beating back the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and their allies to reform the nation’s woeful public schools. By November 3,…

School reformers across the nation found themselves in mourning this week after Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty’s bid for a second term went down in stunning defeat. Four years after sweeping aside a political establishment that long-tolerated rampant crime and…