by Adam Banicki & Xiaolan Tang | Dec 6, 2011 | Education, Politics
A primer on what could change in an update of the No Child Left Behind education law, complete with puppets and a group of young scholars from Georgetown. WASHINGTON — When the No Child Left Behind Act was passed in 2001, it instantly became a lightning rod for...
by Adam Banicki & Xiaolan Tang | Nov 30, 2011 | Education
WASHINGTON — The sexual abuse allegations at Penn State and Syracuse Universities have caught the attention of Congress, but changing a few reporting laws might not have been enough to alter the alleged crimes of Jerry Sandusky or Bernie Fine. A Senate committee has...
by Adam Banicki & Xiaolan Tang | Nov 17, 2011 | Politics, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – This wasn’t the first time Speaker of the House John Boehner presented Congressional Gold Medals, but even he recognized giving them to four astronauts was out of this world. “I’m going to go ahead and say what I think everyone is thinking, ‘This is...
