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What is education? For many in today’s society, the answer to that question would probably consist of various school-related descriptions that apply to people between the ages of 5 and 22. However, if people put more...

Although K-12 online learning is a recent arrival on the education scene, its many possibilities and potentials have caused political parties on both sides of the aisle to sit up and take note. For some, K-12 online...

The era since World War II has seen dramatic changes in a variety of areas for American society. Many of those changes make a profound and deep impact on the nation’s future, but probably none so much as the changes...

Workers have long sought the protection of unions to provide safer working conditions, fair wages, and certain other legal protections. Traditionally, "unionizing" requires employees to come together as a bargaining...

Imagine that it is your first year of college. You’re eager to learn, enthusiastic about your new friends, and devoted to your new professor. Everything is moving along beautifully, until one day your beloved...

The history of feminist thought can be broken down roughly into three waves. First-wave feminism, from the 18th until the beginning of the 20th century, was a movement to liberate women legally, economically, and...

Picture this: You and a friend are walking by a school parking lot one day, when you notice a beautiful, new, expensive vehicle parked there. As you are admiring it, you look around and notice that the lot is full of...

Every weekday morning for approximately nine months of the year, thousands of American adults get up and spend their day standing in front of a room full of children. Apart from teaching children the basic skills of...

The subject of teachers unions often incites two very different responses when raised in conversation. Many in the public are quick to grumble and throw all of the blame for the nation’s education problems at the feet...

If you are like many American college students, you have probably waited anxiously with great fear and trepidation for the letter. When it finally arrives, you grab it from the mail stack, rip it with...