Ask David Steiner why he wrote his latest book, A Nation at Thought: Restoring Wisdom in America's Schools, and he will get right to the point. First, he says, education has lost its way. There has ...

In his most famous book, “The Applicability of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem,” Steiner argued that man’s ability to discover natural laws means that the universe is innately “user friendly.” ...

2000-10-30 04:00:00 PDT STATE-- The dolls in this kindergarten classroom have no faces, and plastic toys, computers and television are discouraged here and at home. In a computer-obsessed world where ...

A couple who shelled out more than $1.1 million to send their three daughters to a posh Upper East Side private school that ...

ALBANY — The state's new education commissioner, David M. Steiner, used his first news conference to emphasize the work that needs to be done to improve the quality of New York's public education and ...

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