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  • Edward Snowden Deserves a Pardon

    Edward Snowden Deserves a Pardon0

    The global spotlight was cast upon Edward Snowden in 2013 after he blew the whistle on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless domestic surveillance programs. Working with The Guardian and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, Snowden famously (or infamously, depending on one’s point of view) revealed that the NSA was illegally gathering information on tens

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  • Educator: Young Children Need Conversation, Not Preschool

    Educator: Young Children Need Conversation, Not Preschool3

    Advocating for state-funded preschool is still a popular political move, as a potential candidate for the New Jersey governorship demonstrated earlier this week. But if early childhood educator Erika Christakis is right, politicians may want to put a hold on the preschool push. Writing in the January/February issue of The Atlantic, Christakis reinforces the idea

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  • Educational Collapse and the Definition of Truth

    Educational Collapse and the Definition of Truth8

    It’s no secret that America’s students are struggling. The latest Nation’s Report Cards have not been flattering, with average scores in both math and reading declining over recent years. It’s also no secret that pandemic restrictions have only exacerbated the learning decline in the U.S. However, scores have been falling since before the pandemic, signaling

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  • Education Used to Happen Outside of School

    Education Used to Happen Outside of School0

    Prior to passage of America’s first compulsory schooling statute, in Massachusetts in 1852, it was generally accepted that education was a broad societal good and that there could be many ways to be educated: at home, through one’s church, with a tutor, in a class, on your own as an autodidact, as an apprentice in

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  • Education Today: An Inch Deep and a Mile Wide?

    Education Today: An Inch Deep and a Mile Wide?0

    Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal released a story on the different outcomes between those who take notes by hand and those who take notes via keyboard. According to the article, there are pros and cons to both sides: “Generally, people who take class notes on a laptop do take more notes and can

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  • Education Then and Now

    Education Then and Now1

    • June 4, 2014

    If you want to positively impact the future, you must have a thorough knowledge of the past. One of the most interesting books that I’ve read in the past year is Henri Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity. It’s considered the standard treatment of what education looked like in ancient Greece – the fount from which education

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