Derrick Z. Jackson: Despite NCAA claims of “monumental change” in the overall graduation rate of basketball players at Division I schools, the numbers at some of the top powers in the March Madness tournament suggest otherwise.  Full story »

Over a busy weekend that saw a trio of Republican candidates for governor chattering at the GOP's Dorchester Conference and the two leading Democrats, Bill Bradbury and John Kitzhaber, battling for key union support, it was Bradbury who uttered the most startling promise: $2 billion more for schools.  Full story »

With achievement and graduation rates in question, educators and citizens must decide the future now  Full story »

The Portland School Board is scheduled to vote Monday on a resolution that includes two controversial ideas: close a neighborhood school and limit transfers between high schools. The board should table this resolution and ask Superintendent Carole Smith for a more specific plan as soon as possible. Full story »

Getting our students to complete college must be a top priority Full story »

When the Portland School Board on Saturday finally revealed its new teacher contract to the taxpayers who will pay for it, no one on the board or in the union answered this: Why did this take so long?  Full story »

A go-ahead to transform OSU's Marine Mammal Institute has nothing but upside for Newport and the science world  Full story »

Hard times or not, Oregonians take a tax break supporting the Cultural Trust  Full story »

Tara Miller: It's time for lawmakers to show they mean what they say by providing stable funding for Oregon schools. Full story »

Scholarships for white students only are aimed at preparing citizens who will be more engaged on problems of racial and ethnic integration Full story »

In his first State of the Union address, President Barack Obama seeks to reconnect by focusing on jobs and the economy Full story »

Here and now Oregon's political leaders should vow to take steps so this state never again is compelled to raise taxes at the very moment businesses and taxpayers are suffering in a recession. With voter approval of new taxes to cover the state's budget shortfall, lawmakers should take up kicker reform to avoid future budget crises.  Full story »

It's easy to look at the Oregon plan and wish that the school reforms were more dramatic, bolder, faster. It's surely not all that Obama and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, hoped for when they launched the Race to the Top competition. But it's a meaningful step forward for Oregon schools.  Full story »

Oregon parents of children with autism search hard for the right medicine, diet or behavioral therapy that might help their child thrive in school. If a highly trained service animal can help, Oregon school districts should try hard to accommodate.  Full story »

Of all times, of all things, the Democrats in the Oregon Legislature chose now, in the throes of one of the worst recessions in history, to make business an enemy. Measure 66 and Measure 67 insist that Oregonians pick a side, to accept one lousy, harmful choice or the other. No, we won't do it. You shouldn't, either. Full story »