The language used by Labour during the second reading debate on Andrew Lansley's Health and Social Care Bill leaves little doubt that they intend to do their best to stop it in its tracks.

BBC: Parliamentary warfare breaks out in Lords over NHS bill

As formal education took hold, Latin language and literature studies introduced young people to a second, more worldly experience of reading one that, offered in the name of the time-honored tradition of the classical education, did not seem incompatible with their Bible studies.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Minders of Make-Believe'

Just 7 percent of fourth-grade and 3 percent of eighth-grade English learners scored "proficient" or above in a nationwide reading exam, and thousands languish for years in ineffective English-as-a-second-language programs.

NPR: Instruction Of Students Learning English Bleak