Imagine that a year ago the president had proposed to begin dealing with the government’s budget deficit, and the urgent need for infrastructure investment, by raising the federal gas tax by 60 cents a gallon, from its current level of 18.5
cents. One can only imagine the howls of protest and con… The University of Maryland announced it was buying iPads for all of its athletes out of its student-athlete opportunity fund. President Obama opted not to cancel his long-planned trip in the wake of the earthquake in Japan. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that the surging drug violence in Mexico now resembles war-torn Colombia a generation ago, with criminal cartels looking like “insurgencies” battling for control of territory. My colleague Kevin Sieff reported last week that the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is not only the most selective school in the United States, but also one of the least diverse.
After years of Jefferson promising to reach out to the third of Northern Virginia students wh… My favorite teacher, Patrick Welsh, wrote an intriguing essay for USA Today about what he considers an overabundance of high school students going on to college. The same sentiments were expressed in a well-phrased letter from Eugene Morgan of Wheaton, published on The Post’s editorial page June