California needs 'Race to the Top' funds By Ted Mitchell, Ted Mitchell is president of the state Board of Education and chief executive of the NewSchools Venture Fund.
Evaluating teachers By Walt Gardner, Walt Gardner taught for 28 years in the Los Angeles Unified School District and was a lecturer in the UCLA Graduate School of Education. E-mail:
A nuclear waste solution By Frank Von Hippel, Frank von Hippel, a physicist, is a professor of public and international affairs at Princeton University and co-chairs the International Panel on Fissile Materials. Previously, he was assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.