As if anyone needed proof that immigration will remain a major issue, a new international survey reports that some 700 million people worldwide say they would move to another country if they could. Not surprisingly, the largest single group, one-quarter, say their first choice would be to come to the United States.

The latest edition of the "nation's report card" shows that math scores failed to improve for the first time since 1990, and you don't have to have great math skills to know that isn't good enough. But how do we move skills forward?

The Obama administration has been making noises about a longer school year, and the Associated Press takes the opportunity to examine whether American students need to spend more time in class. We can't say whether or not that will improve student achievement, but we can say it goes to one of American parents' big concerns about their children.

This has been "Climate Week" at the United Nations, bringing world leaders, experts, advocates and celebrities together to help set the stage for negotiations later this year on a new treaty for greenhouse gas reduction.

There's a potential milestone in the fight against HIV, with word that for the very first time, a vaccine has been found to provide a small but measurable protective effect against the disease.

New census data suggests the recession is deterring new immigrants from coming to the United States – but Public Agenda's research shows it isn't shaking those who are already here.

America's magazine editors continue to come up with new ways of rating colleges, with the U.S News and World Report ranking coming out as Washington Monthly unveils a new standard aimed at assessing an institution’s contribution to the "public good." But what does the public think a college education is all about?

The latest ACT scores are another poke in the ribs to those who worry that American students are falling behind in math and science. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like American parents are among that group.

The New York Times proclaims today that statistics is a hot career path, with a Google executive saying statistician will be the "sexy job of the next 10 years" – but Public Agenda's own statistics show that's just not adding up for a lot of young people.

We've already posed the question of "Where does the money go?" but what does the federal government do when the money doesn't show up in the first place?