The Takeaway

Is Manufacturing the Key to Innovation? | Colleges Take on Registering Incoming Freshman to Vote | Princeton's First Female President Shirley Tilghman Stepping Down | Candidates Request No Follow-Ups in Town-Hall Style Debate | One Tough Neighborhood, Two Friends, and Thousands of Photos | President Obama's Messaging Problem

Children of Conflict | A Modern Guide to Money | Lessons Learned: Princeton's first female president Shirley Tilghman Stepping Down | A Planet Made of Diamonds | What Are Compounding Pharmacies and How Are They Regulated? | The Half-Life of Facts

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to European Union | Biden and Ryan Spar in First and Only Vice Presidential Debate | Is America Doing Enough to Protect Foreign Diplomatic Workers? | 'Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher': Edward Curtis, Photographs and the American Frontier | David Thomson on "The Big Screen" | 'Mad Men' Creator Matthew Weiner on Writing the Cuban Missile Crisis

Has Obama Narrowed Our Discussion of Race? | How Race Factors Into Our Political Leanings | International Day of the Girl Highlights Global Struggle for Girls' Education | What Falling Feels Like | Does the College Recruitment Brochure Depict Diversity Dreams or Realities? | Paul Ryan Budget Creates Friction in Congressional Race | Civil Rights, the Courts and Public Opinion: The Case of Gay Marriage

The Lake County Voters | 14-Year-Old Rights Activist Shot in Pakistan | What Makes Us Human | Author of 'Consider the Fork' on the Social History of Cooking and Eating

Romney Lays Out Foreign Policy in Virginia | The Choice 2012: Incumbent or Challenger? | Seven Ohio Voters: From Liberal to Conservative and Everything in Between | Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded | The Real Story Behind the Movie "Argo" | Creations, Myths, and the Untold Story of Marvel Comics

The Lake County Voters of Ohio | The Most Important State in the Country | Two Giant Telecom Companies Banned from U.S. Market | Home of César Chávez Now a National Monument | In Defense of Shorter Maternity Leave | The Real End of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Small Business Owners React to Jobs Report | Don't Mention It: Gun Violence | New Movie Releases: 'Taken 2,' 'Frankenweenie,' 'The Paperboy' | Toledo, Ohio Mayor Says Stop Bashing China | Lee Daniels on "The Paperboy"

The First Debate and the Swing Vote | Don't Mention It: Patriot Act | The Country's First Voter? | Plunging Currency and Protests in Iran | Discovery Channel Crashes a 727 (For Science!) | Recapping Last Night's Debate

The United Nations and the Syrian Conflict | The Country's First Voter? | Don't Mention It: The War On Drugs with Eugene Jarecki | Talking Cars | Addicted to the Internet? That May Soon Be a Psychological Disorder | Why We Care About Jimmy Hoffa | MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winner Maria Chudnovsky on Graph Theory

Election 2012: When the Enthusiasm Fades | Don't Mention It: Climate Change | Teaching Blind Children to “See” With Their Ears | From Native Americans to the ADA: A History of Disabilities in the United States | Art.sy: The 'Pandora' of the Art World

How Important Is Early Voting? | Don't Mention It: Guantanamo Bay | Affirmative Action to Warrantless Wiretapping: The 2012-2013 Supreme Court Term | Exploring Asian American Comic Book Artists and Imagery | Nate Silver on the Science of Prediction

We spent the week talking with students, educators, and parents about what works in education — and what doesn't. Here are the best parts of those conversations, mixed into a special edition podcast.

Three Teachers' Most Worrisome — and Hopeful — Students | The Trouble with Depicting God | The Best High School Movies | Olivia Wilde on 'Half the Sky' | How the Jetsons Inspired Our Future

Mouse Stand-ins Leading The Way Towards Cures, Treatment | Learning from Highly Selective Public Schools | A New Mona Lisa? | The Ryder Cup and Other Euro-American Competitions | Is Obesity in America Threatening Our National Security? | Thinking Like a Scientist: Solution to Politics?