Author: The Opportunity Agenda

Here are a few stories that were covered by blogs this week: Articles on Polish and Italian migration show that closing the border slows return migration.  AP reports on the ICE detention system which holds five times the...

Last week, President Obama hosted a health care summit, initiating a process to fulfill a key campaign promise: fixing our broken health care system.  Critics, and more than a few allies, wondered aloud whether he is taking...

The eye is one of the most complex organs in the human body. What was millions of years ago a simple concave receptor sensitive to ultra low frequencies of light has not just become an advanced organ that utilizes one-third of...

Business Week Online and the New York Times report on the Kauffman Foundation’s study on the "flood" of young and highly-educated Indian and Chinese immigrants returning to their countries of origin in light of...

Education is perhaps the closest thing we have to a social panacea.  When it works, it can fuel social mobility, economic productivity, crime prevention, and personal fulfillment.  And we know that the earlier a child...