Ed Ball, the late head of the duPont trust, had a favorite toast: Confusion to the enemy. I knew Ball and he was no liberal. He was instrumental in defeating the staunch New Dealer Claude Pepper's ...

JEFFERSON CITY • Ten minutes before a work group tasked with developing elementary school social studies standards began its Thursday meeting, members ran through the list of absentees. This 2000 file ...

It has come to my attention that many residents of Rochester think Breanna Bly is an advocate and supporter of the much ballyhooed "Common Core" state standards. This information is patently wrong and ...

This is the latest of a long series of occurrences that started at the end of the 2010 session when the Legislature approved the adoption of Common Core curriculum standards for English and math. The ...