This newspaper had reported extensively on cheating, but hadn’t dug deeply into a more basic question: Just how good are the exams used to make critical decisions in schools? No one, it turned out, ...

Errors are an unavoidable part of modern life. From minor human misjudgments to large-scale system failures, errors influence ...

There is an increasing awareness of the impact of errors in medicine on the patient and on the entire healthcare system. It is estimated that as many as 98,000 people die annually in the USA as a ...