As rescue workers continue to recover victims from Oklahoma's devastating tornado, stories of survival and sacrifice were also unearthed. Read More

A Moore, Okla., elementary school took a direct hit from the massive tornado that ripped through the state. By early Tuesday morning, the medical examiner had confirmed 24 fatalities, but the toll was expected to rise. Read More

Seriously cute: Barack Obama had a tough week, but he walked into a room of people happy to see him Friday morning when he visited children at Moravia Park Elementary School in Baltimore. Read More

The president announced two executive actions to help spur innovation in the tech sector in his Texas trip, the first in a series the White House has dubbed “Middle Class Jobs &; Opportunity Tours.” Read More

Even with better than expected job numbers, millions of jobs still remain vacant across the country; Chuck Todd moderated a series on how to match education with 21st century jobs. Read More

“We’ve snatched the rug out from under 70,000 of the most vulnerable families and children in America,” Ron Herndon, chairman of the board of the National Head Start Association, told Hardball on Monday evening. Read More

Is President Obama facing a case of the second-term blues? What exactly does our government owe our veterans? Should creationism be taught in schools? Those questions and many more, on the May 4 edition of "Melissa Harris-Perry"! Read More

By investing in programs that are successful and have the data to prove it, we can move from blind cuts to smart choices, and begin to change lives for the better. Read More

As the latest attempt to repeal Louisiana's creationism law comes to a hearing, activist Zack Kopplin offers some thoughts to Governor Bobby Jindal. Read More

Dozens of students protested against high stakes testing and Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to close 54 schools. Read More

This week’s Melissa Harris-Perry "Foot Soldier" is Tonya Lewis-Taylor, a singer and former Roc-A-Fella Records publicist who co-founded the non-profit organization Entertainers 4 Education Alliance. Read More

President Obama's proposed tariff on cigarettes could save a million lives—and billions in health care costs—while enriching early childhood education. Read More

It's time to replace our high-stakes test-and-punish strategy with "intelligent accountability." Without major changes, we will be testing our nation to death. Read More

What I thought was an uncontroversial comment in an MSNBC "Lean Forward" ad--on my desire for Americans to see children as everyone's responsibility--has created a bit of a tempest in the right's teapot. Allow me to double down--and tell me your own stories. Read More

President Barack Obama's proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs by including a proposal to lower cost-of-living adjustments to government social safety net spending, a senior administration official says. Read More

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Hundreds rallied in Chicago on Wednesday to protest the largest proposed mass school closing in the nation. Read More

The controversial decision has fired up Chicago’s Teachers Union, which argues that the measure appears to target schools in “minority districts." Read More

The American public needs to focus on improvements in students' performances and results, not just shovel money into the nation's education system, said Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. Read More