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  • Betting on Homeschooling and Microschooling

    Betting on Homeschooling and Microschooling7

    I have spent the past thirty-five years creating small, highly-personalized schools where students flourish. I have, if you will, bet my life on the value of these schools—microschools before they became a thing. Over the course of that time, I’ve seen hundreds of children who were anxious, depressed—sometimes even suicidal—become happy and well within weeks

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  • Betsy DeVos’ Support for Due Process on Campuses Draws Attack

    Betsy DeVos’ Support for Due Process on Campuses Draws Attack0

    Betsy DeVos, who was nominated to be the Education Secretary, was recently attacked because she and her husband made donations to a civil-liberties group, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. FIRE is “a nonpartisan organization that defends free speech, religious liberty, and due process on college campuses.” FIRE is also responsible for many free-speech

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  • Betsy DeVos’ Secret (and Paradoxical) Weapon

    Betsy DeVos’ Secret (and Paradoxical) Weapon0

    Over the past few weeks, the political and media controversy has primarily centered around Donald Trump’s various selections for cabinet positions. Perhaps, of them all, the one pick that has garnered the most profuse and stringent criticism has been Trump’s choice for United States Secretary of Education—Betsy DeVos. Whether one believes the Michigan philanthropist and

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  • Betsy DeVos Urges Americans to Embrace ‘Education Freedom’

    Betsy DeVos Urges Americans to Embrace ‘Education Freedom’0

    Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is calling on Americans to embrace a vision of “education freedom” that empowers students and parents with a “multitude of pathways” toward new opportunities. DeVos, speaking during a question-and-answer session Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, said one such pathway would be educational savings accounts to benefit military families who

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  • Bestselling Books: 1915 vs. 2015

    Bestselling Books: 1915 vs. 20150

    Below are Publishers Weekly’s lists of the bestselling books from 1915 and 2015. As you might notice, in 1915 the bestselling books all belonged to the fiction genre:   1915 Bestsellers 1. The Turmoil, Booth Tarkington 2. A Far Country, Winston Churchill 3. Michael O’Halloran, Gene Stratton Porter 4. Polyanna Grows Up, Eleanor H. Porter

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  • Best Way to Change Trans Policies in Sports? Women Refuse to Play

    Best Way to Change Trans Policies in Sports? Women Refuse to Play2

    As more youth experience gender confusion and join athletics, in the name of political correctness sports associations often allow males who “identify” as females to compete alongside females. These male athletes then beat the female athletes because of their physiological advantages. If sports associations won’t change their policies to make the playing field level again, the best

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