The Parent Empowerment Act, which allows parents to take judicial action against underperforming schools, may lead to more controversy than improvement.

I’m pretty sure that this week I’ve come across enough Steve Jobs tributes — Facebook statuses, Tweets, photos and very many full-length articles — to leave my laptop forever overwhelmed by the rainbow wheel of death. The cybernoise has been deafening — so deafening that happily, no one’s had two words to say about Sarah Palin’s declaration that she won’t run for president. (Except, maybe, “cool story”). 

Given the generally more stable career opportunities available to students graduating with science and tech degrees, what is the value of obtaining a degree in the humanities and social sciences? Professors Jorge Mariscal and John Blanco respond.