With one eye on legislative elections next year German Chancellor Angela Merkela has undertaken a nationwide tour of schools to promote education reforms.

The government has made addressing problems of inequality in the eductation system a top priority and it promises to be a major theme in the coming election campaign.

The flaws have been recognised for many years and even internat...

Dorothea L. Gillim has always been a self-described "word geek," who admired those who were eloquent.

Growing up in Brighton, she once asked her parents for a dictionary for Christmas and not just any dictionary — a Random House Unabridged Dictionary.

So it's no surprise that the 1982 Brighton High School graduate was the brains behind the Public Broadcasting Service's (PBS)...