Nationally, high-school graduation rates are improving. But in a few states, the numbers have taken a hit—including those that educate some of the highest concentrations of poor children of color.

In the Mexican state of Baja California, the government is moving toward subsidizing workers’ pay. Could that catch on in America?

A new report highlights 100 restaurant salads that are supposedly worse than a Big Mac. But why do people order grease-laden items when they want health food?

A medical ethicist argues that a small change to the way organ donation is discussed could go a long way towards solving the country’s shortage.

The wreckage of a military aircraft has been found days after it went missing during earthquake-relief operations. All eight passengers are presumed dead.

“No one with a free mind can limit themselves within the walls of narrow-mindedness,” Ananta Bijoy Das wrote hours before his death.

“It is strange, but true.” What one reader says about Raleigh, North Carolina applies many other places as well.

The guitarist, dead at 89, built himself into the figurehead of the genre.

In this installment of "Ask a Tween," we interviewed students at Alice Deal Middle School in D.C., who told us how they would advise the adults in their lives. "I think sometimes we all feel like we're the center of everything," said 12-year-old Alissa Simon. "We need to, like, learn to get along with the people who we share our lives with."

A Georgia principal has been fired after making questionable remarks at a graduation ceremony last week.