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It's hard to know how schools of choice — charter or private — are performing. Researchers say that's precisely because they are schools of choice. But here's what we do know.

Steve Inskeep talks to Steven Levy about his story in Wired magazine on the new app created by a team of people that includes the developers of Siri and IBM's Watson.

Privacy protections on Internet browsers are anything but ironclad. Companies circumvent them routinely. Most people know they are being observed online but figuring out how is complicated.

With Instagram sold to Facebook for $1 billion and Facebook itself expected to be valued at up to $100 billion in its initial public offering, some feel they're reliving the last tech bubble. But some analysts say this time is different. The new generation of tech entrepreneurs tends to reinvest its winnings in even more ideas.

Conservatives are delighted by a promise kept to nominate a wave of young judges. Liberals fear effects for decades — and peril for abortion rights. The judges are also largely white and male.

The disruptions to the labor market brought on by the pandemic continue to play out today. Workers are responding to burnout by striking, quitting and refusing to return to offices.

Long commutes are a key reason why LA hotel workers have been on rolling strikes since early July. And they have a unique solution for hotels to help them.

Just a week after 100,000 Michigan voters chose uncommitted on their Democratic ballots, hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country made a similar statement on Super Tuesday.

For some people, stress, anxiety and depression lead to undereating.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Eric Hoover, reporter at The Chronicle of Higher Education, about how last year's chaotic rollout of the FAFSA is affecting colleges and universities.