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  • How New Rules Allow Men to Dominate Women’s Sports

    How New Rules Allow Men to Dominate Women’s Sports0

    • January 16, 2020

    Women’s athletics have been a subject of a growing transgender inclusion controversy that threatens to blow open wide as high school sports, college, the Olympics, and even the professional level are grappling with how to balance fairness with a new demand for “inclusion.” There are questions about how transgender athletes should qualify for participation, and

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  • How New Orleans Schools Turned Around After Katrina

    How New Orleans Schools Turned Around After Katrina0

    • August 28, 2015

    This week marks the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. For non-residents of Louisiana, the news of the Hurricane was a dark cloud over their lives for a few days, which then moved on as the initial disaster passed out of the news. For others, the effects of the disaster remain present. But what was a

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  • How Nat Turner’s Failed Revolt Changed the Debate on Slavery

    How Nat Turner’s Failed Revolt Changed the Debate on Slavery0

    On August 22, 1831, a group of slaves began a revolt in the county of Southampton, Virginia, that would go down in history as the largest uprising against the Peculiar Institution in nineteenth-century America. The rebellion was led by Nat Turner, a slave from Southampton, one of the few southern counties where black Americans were

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  • How My Unschooled Child Learned to Read Financial Statements (It Started with Silly YouTube Videos)

    How My Unschooled Child Learned to Read Financial Statements (It Started with Silly YouTube Videos)1

    It started with a “Dude Perfect” video on YouTube. A couple of years ago, when Jack was very interested in basketball, he found these guys who create fun videos about making baskets with all sorts of twists and turns. He continued to watch these videos, even after his interest in basketball waned; and when his interest in

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  • How Music Training Speeds Up Brain Development In Children

    How Music Training Speeds Up Brain Development In Children69

    Observing a pianist at a recital – converting musical notations into precisely timed finger movements on a piano – can be a powerful emotional experience. As a researcher of neuroscience and a pianist myself, I understand that the mastering of this skill not only takes practice, but also requires complex coordination of many different brain

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  • How Music and Shakespeare Turned Around a Failing School

    How Music and Shakespeare Turned Around a Failing School0

    We all want the best for our kids. Because of this desire, it’s quite discouraging to see when efforts to boost progress in reading, math, and other subjects flatline in schools across the country, as the chart below shows. On the other hand, this perpetual stagnation causes us to sit up and notice when a

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