A smashing time On Sunday, vandals in Reno, Nevada, hit Angelique Ybarra’s car — with a watermelon. The watermelon smashed through her back windshield and cost her nearly $1,000 in out-of-pocket repairs. ...

What’s on your mind?” Facebook asks as you open its mobile app. More likely than not, what’s in the back of your mind while you use Facebook is your image — how your peers will perceive your...

We need to transform our public education system — but that change isn’t going to come from legislators. Laurene Powell Jobs — the founder of Emerson Collective and widow of the late Steve Jobs...

According to the Social Science Research Center, more than 80 percent of people charged with felonies are indigent — or poor. These people cannot afford attorneys, and therefore, must rely on public...

On Saturday, the Department of Education unveiled a website that allows prospective students and their parents to select a university and then determine the yearly average costs, graduation rates and salaries...

Language barriers A teller at a San Antonio Wells Fargo just discovered the benefits of sleeping through a Spanish class. Last week, the teller’s limited Spanish ended up preventing a bank robbery....

Do you know how much you owe on your student loans? If the question boggles you, you’re not alone. According to a 2014 survey conducted by the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings Institution,...

The reasons behind a student’s poor performance in school tend to extend far beyond the classroom — they are usually found in the home. Emotional trauma caused by a poor home life affects countless...