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  • Forty-Four Things You Should Know About the Green New Deal

    Forty-Four Things You Should Know About the Green New Deal0

    On Feb. 7, US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and US Sen. Ed Markey introduced legislation known as the Green New Deal. You’ve probably heard of it. It’s a big deal, to paraphrase Joe Biden. The History of New Deals Wikipedia, the internet’s fountain of knowledge, describes the legislation as “a proposed stimulus package that aims to

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  • Forming a Family Huddle

    Forming a Family Huddle19

    Lots of parents these days feel swamped by the obligations of work and family. For many, it’s a balancing act in which all too often the tightrope breaks and chaos ensues. Work suddenly shifts into high-paced 12-hour days, and family life suffers. School with its academics and extracurricular activities eats up time spent at home.

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  • Former Yale Student Says He Was Persecuted for a Philosophy Essay that Triggered a TA

    Former Yale Student Says He Was Persecuted for a Philosophy Essay that Triggered a TA0

    An unnamed former student of Yale University—John Doe—is suing Yale, accusing the Ivy League school of gender discrimination and alleging “gross mishandling” in its Title IX investigation of alleged sexual misconduct. The lawsuit, the subject of a recent Wall Street Journal article written by Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, is one

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  • Former Twitter CEO Says ‘Me-Too Capitalists’ Will Be ‘Shot in the Revolution’

    Former Twitter CEO Says ‘Me-Too Capitalists’ Will Be ‘Shot in the Revolution’1

    The socialist social justice revolution is here, and one former CEO is here to tweet it. On Wednesday, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, a man whose net worth is estimated at $300 million, took to his old platform and appeared to be gleefully suggesting that “capitalists” who don’t get involved with social justice causes should

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  • Former Teacher: 8 Negative Lessons Today’s Schools Teach

    Former Teacher: 8 Negative Lessons Today’s Schools Teach1

    Of all the teachers who enter the profession each year, nearly 17 percent of them will leave the classroom behind within five years. So when a teacher sticks around for almost 30 years, you have to admit that he is probably pretty experienced and knows what he’s talking about. Such is the case with John

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  • Former Teacher: 7 Ways Schools Are Creating ‘Empty’ Children

    Former Teacher: 7 Ways Schools Are Creating ‘Empty’ Children1

    In the early 1990s, New York Teacher of the Year, John Taylor Gatto, threw in the towel on teaching with his famous I Quit, I Think  letter to the Wall Street Journal. Gatto’s reason for quitting was simple. He could no longer justify teaching “a curriculum of confusion, class position, arbitrary justice, vulgarity, rudeness, disrespect

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