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The interim manager says the new position includes working with families where English is not the primary language, in addition to students and teachers.

Foreign Policy makes the case that the rise of emerging markets, the creation of social media and other events have had stronger impacts than the terrorist attacks.

Listener Martha Hasting plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Susan Davis.

Tik Root, a senior staff writer at Grist, reports that since February and the start of the war on Iran, soaring diesel prices have cost U.S. consumers an additional $46 billion, or about $350 per household.

Voters in Oregon and Washington will decide Tuesday whether to strip cities of their ability to tax sugary drinks, thanks to ballot initiatives backed by Big Soda.

Climate change costs tens of billions of dollars each year, hurts Americans' health and disrupts everyday life, including how we work, eat, play and mourn, according to a major new assessment.

Sheikh Hamza Yusuf is one of the most prominent American Muslim leaders today, but he's not well-known outside the Muslim community. He's an American convert to Islam who has attacked American foreign policy -- and denounced Islamic extremism.

This coming Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of contralto Marian Anderson, one of this country's greatest singers, who died in 1993. In 1939, Anderson was not allowed to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall because she was African-American. An outraged Eleanor Roosevelt arranged for Anderson to sing at the Lincoln Memorial in an outdoor concert that became a landmark in African-American cultural history. We reprise a 1989 segment on that concert that was produced by the late Robert Montiegel.

NPR's Mark Roberts reports on the controversy surrounding tomorrow's Columbus Day parade in Denver. The Italian-American community, which organized the event, has broken an agreement with Hispanic and Native American groups to call it an "Italian Pride" day, using not references to Columbus. Italian-American leaders back their decision to break the agreement saying it violates their rights to free speech..

Wu, who survived 19 years in Chinese labor camps, died Tuesday. Born in China, Wu had lived in the United States since 1985 and was an active proponent of human rights. Originally broadcast in 1994.