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Just before Alec Raeshawn Smith turned 24, he thought he had come down with the flu. When he went to the doctor a few...

Silicon Valley has long been heralded as the world’s center of innovation. Yet every day, when some of the country’s smartest engineers commute to...

  Karthik Chandramouli has always been an active citizen. Growing up in Kentucky as the only son of two Indian immigrant professionals, Chandramouli recalls his...

America is facing a fiscal crisis and no one is talking about it. Pension reform has snuck under the public’s radar, even though it...

This article was co-authored by Akshaya Annapragada, Chad Borgman, Katherine Ho, Quinn Mulholland, and Akash Wasil. In the POLITICO feature “Paul Ryan’s Favorite Charter School,”...

In mid-March, the Trump administration released its proposed budget for 2018. It included deep cuts to federal scientific agencies such as the National Institutes...

“In the new economy, computer science isn’t an optional skill – it’s a basic skill, right along with the three “Rs.” President Obama made...

Every so often, stories of promising young students who exhibit extraordinary academic talent sweep the Internet; when a Naperville North student became the first...

Unfortunately, even in education systems considered to be high performing, there is no guarantee of access to high-level schooling for everyone. According to the...

Despite the bad rap that the youth get, recent polling by the Institute of Politics at Harvard University reveals that the majority of young people today actually support the idea of a national service program for Americans under the age of 25. The IOP survey of 18-29 year old Americans found that a full 50 percent support voluntary national service, and seven percent support mandatory national service. Only 10 percent of respondents indicated that they would not support national service at all, while 33 percent were either unsure, or did not answer.