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  • How Orwell Foresaw the Disintegration of Our Language

    How Orwell Foresaw the Disintegration of Our Language0

    “In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing.” This is the takeaway quote from George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language,” which has become popular as a guide for writers throughout the English-speaking world.  In the essay Orwell advocates a plainspoken, straightforward and no-nonsense writing style.  He heaps scorn

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  • How Orwell Became the Prophet Who Foresaw Our Future

    How Orwell Became the Prophet Who Foresaw Our Future0

    There is something ghostly and ghastly about the resurrection of British author George Orwell in contemporary politics, especially in the reaction to the disruption and transformation of public policy now taking place. Orwell was a mid-20th century journalist, essayist and novelist who was an early anti-fascist of the far left until the Spanish civil war

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  • How Online Dating is Saving Marriage (and Making Society Less Segregated)

    How Online Dating is Saving Marriage (and Making Society Less Segregated)0

    The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) recently banned an ad from online dating site eHarmony which assured those looking for love that it was a “scientifically proven” matching system. The company matches users according to their personality, using their own data on existing relationships. According to the ASA, however, eHarmony failed to demonstrate that its

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  • How One Teacher Discovered That iPads in the Classroom are a Bad Idea

    How One Teacher Discovered That iPads in the Classroom are a Bad Idea0

    In the last few years, countless school districts have passed initiatives to get iPads in the hands of every student. The rationale is that access to technology will improve learning and shrink achievement gaps between white and non-white students. But as teacher Launa Hall discovered, iPads in the classroom actually deter learning and other important

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  • How One Teacher Completely Avoids Using Textbooks

    How One Teacher Completely Avoids Using Textbooks0

    A teacher dramatically strumming his guitar, singing a song to giggling high school students, recently graced a Washington Post article by Jay Mathews. While the guitar serenade is a unique feature of Mark Ingerson’s AP history course, the more intriguing thing about his classroom is that it doesn’t rely on traditional textbooks. Ingerson, Mathews reports,

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  • How One Mother Sends Her Kids to College at Age 11

    How One Mother Sends Her Kids to College at Age 110

    By now, you may have heard of Carson and Cannan Huey-You. The two brothers hail from Texas and are making news this graduation season as one is graduating from Texas Christian University with a degree in physics, while the other is graduating from a local Christian high school. Their respective graduations are no big deal

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