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The French school system is more class-ridden than it pretends THE right to a good, free state school is part of France's republican folklore, the guarantor of its secular meritocracy. So new figures this week, based on the 2005 school-leaving exa… more »

One thing above all marks out 20th-century man, and still more so woman, from most of their predecessors: they can read. How did it happen? THE idea that a well-schooled society is a prosperous and stable society, and therefore that educating the… more »

The more the rankings differ, the less attention they receive FOR the first time ever, a non-American institution has topped one of the leading rankings of business schools-the purveyors of the MBAs that are meant to be passports to a corner o… more »

The Millennium Development Goals cannot be met; some can barely be measured. What, then, are they for? JOHN BOLTON, who recently became America's representative to the United Nations, is not over-fond of his new place of work. He belongs to the sc… more »