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Once a conservative advocate for the No Child Left Behind Act, Diane Ravitch has had a change in opinion. The former Bush administration education official has written a book spelling out the law's missteps and adverse effects on the U.S. education system.

In Her Shoes

Based on the hit TV series from the 1960s,

The annual PGA golf tournament at Torrey Pines gets underway later this month, but it's going without a title sponsor. Joining us on Morning Edition is Tom Wilson, executive director of the Century Club of San Diego.

After taking on Chicago, director Rob Marshall now sets his sights on Japan. The filmmaker tackles the best selling novel Memoirs of a Geisha (opening December 16 at AMC Mission Valley and La Jolla Theaters) about a young womans indoctrination into a secretive subculture of Japanese society.

Reports abound on the numbers of successful black women who aren't able to find a suitable husband. So we ask black men: Why aren't you marrying black women?

, written and directed by Gustavo Loza, was Mexico's official selection for the 2006 Oscar for Best Foreign Language film. It offers three stories about children whose fathers are absent. But these men are by no means deadbeat dads; each one has emigrated in the hopes of finding greater prosperity somewhere else. One story involves a boy in Mexico; another has a boy in Cuba; and the last one deals with a young girl in Morocco. Although the film intercuts between the three stories, the film could have just as easily been structured as three separate chapters since each can stand alone as a self-contained story. As with two other San Diego Latino Film Festival entries'

In growing numbers, health experts are recommending screening for heart disease in children, especially those who play sports. One in 100,000 people ages 12 to 24 are estimated to die suddenly as a result of congenital undiagnosed heart malfunctions. And children who play sports are nearly three times more likely to suffer sudden cardiac death than their nonathletic counterparts.

Cable giant Comcast is trying to build an entertainment empire with its purchase of NBC Universal, but analysts warn the deal might not turn out well for consumers. It could bring higher prices and more charges for content that used to be free, even as it reshapes the media landscape.

Comcast announced early Thursday that it will buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal in a deal valued at roughly $30 billion, setting up the Philadelphia-based cable company to achieve its ambition of becoming one of the nation's most powerful entertainment companies.