There were a few items about education that caught our eye during the past week from The Washington Post and The New York Times that should make all of us question how children in this country are educated: ¥ A news story from TuesdayÕs Times was about the intellectual ...

New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson got a compensation package worth roughly $4.9 million in 2009, according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory filing. Robinson's base salary was cut 4 percent to $962,500. But she got a performance-based bonus of ...

The New York Times fired back on Monday against plans by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to compete against the respected daily with a New York edition of The Wall Street Journal. The Times announced a campaign aimed at advertisers called "Numbers" which emphasizes the reach and influence of the newspaper in print and on the Web compared with the ...

The Pentagon may review allegations Monday that a defense department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to track and kill suspected militants. The New York Times reported Monday that the official, named as Michael Furlong, had set up the network under the guise of an information-gathering program. Citing unnamed military officials and businessmen in ...