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Ravitch: Standardized Testing Undermines Teaching

Former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch explains why she was once an early advocate of No Child Left Behind, school vouchers and charter schools — and what changed her mind.

Birmingham Rescue attends to a man who was injured after a tornado hit Pratt City, Ala., on Wednesday.

Dozens Killed In Southern Storms; Alabama Battered

A wave of tornado-spawning storms strafed the South on Wednesday, killing 72 people in four states. At least 58 people died in Alabama alone, including 15 or more when a massive tornado devastated Tuscaloosa. Forecasters warned that even worse weather could be on its way.

Home Prices Fall Further

"There is very little, if any, good news about housing," says David M. Blitzer, who oversees the widely watched S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report.

A U.S. military guard carries shackles in preparation for moving a detainee at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Detainees Transferred Or Freed Despite 'High Risk'

Hundreds of secret documents show that military and counterterrorism analysts sometimes found it difficult to determine whether those held in the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay were truly dangerous.

U.S. military guards arrive for their sunrise shift at Camp Delta at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Military Documents Detail Life At Guantanamo

Thousands of pages of secret military reports obtained by The New York Times and shared with NPR put a name, a history and a face on some of the hundreds of men held at the detention camp.

Google Tweaks Algorithm To Spot 'Content Farms'

How-to content on the Internet has become popular and profitable. Google recently changed its search algorithm because it didn't like the glut of sites that show up every time you search how to do something.

Many businesses no longer shut down at dusk — and workers often face a sleep deficit as they fit into different shifts. Here, a Chinese broker sleeps on her desk at the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Late-Shift Worker's Lament: 'It's Killing Me'

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 15 percent of Americans do shift work. A request on NPR's Facebook page for people to share their stories of working on the night shift brought more than 2,000 responses.

Obama's Approval Rating In 'Lower Range' Of Recent Presidents, Gallup Says

Viewed quarterly, his current rating is above those of Reagan, Carter and Clinton at the same points in their presidencies. It's below those of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon and both Bushes

Yellow tape hangs on a fence during a protest outside the New York Stock Exchange last December. Almost three years after the financial crisis, most top Wall Street executives haven't faced any criminal reckoning.

After Financial Crisis, Wheels Of Justice Turn Slowly

This week's fraud conviction of Lee Farkas, CEO of one of the country's largest private mortgage lending companies, has been trumpeted by federal prosecutors. But opportunities for the Justice Department to crow about victories in financial cases are few and far between.

Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva are members of "The Bang-Bang Club," a group of photographers who covered the civil war in South Africa and the waning days of apartheid. Silva snapped this photo shortly before South Africa's first nonsegregated election in April 1994.

Two War Photographers On Their Injuries, Ethics

Combat photographer Joao Silva is at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he's recovering after losing his legs in an explosion in October. Greg Marinovich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who was shot four times while covering conflicts. Silva and Marinovich talk about life as war photographers with Fresh Air's Terry Gross.

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