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Louisiana should not dumb down school curricula to deal with a high-school dropout problem. That may please some legislators and other officials, because it defines away […]

Louisiana’s coastline is sinking even as ocean levels are rising, a dire combination that makes our state more vulnerable to climate change than any other place […]

Community leaders from across Louisiana have accepted the challenge of improving Louisiana schools by working with a new organization called Education’s Next Horizon. Literature on the […]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has begun using stars to rate nursing homes. The lowest rating is one star. It indicates a facility is […]