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  • American Students Can’t Write… Because Schools Never Taught Them How

    American Students Can’t Write… Because Schools Never Taught Them How1

    • October 13, 2015

    I had a rude awakening during peer review week in my College Comp II course: writing was a struggle for my classmates. At the time, I was in tears as I read through their papers because the editing work ahead of me was so daunting! In retrospect, I should have been crying more over the

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  • American Soldiers Are Not Bodyguards for Saudi Royals

    American Soldiers Are Not Bodyguards for Saudi Royals0

    President Donald Trump believes in America First except when it comes to the Saudi royal family. Then it is Saudi Arabia first. At the end of November, U.S. military leaders were in Riyadh negotiating the employment terms for the royal’s new bodyguards. That is, the plan for an expanded American military presence in the Kingdom

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  • American slavery: Separating fact from myth

    American slavery: Separating fact from myth0

    • June 19, 2017

    People think they know everything about slavery in the United States, but they don’t. They think the majority of African slaves came to the American colonies, but they didn’t. They talk about 400 years of slavery, but it wasn’t. They claim all Southerners owned slaves, but they didn’t. Some argue it was all a long

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  • American Schools are Focusing on Diversity at History’s Expense

    American Schools are Focusing on Diversity at History’s Expense0

    The 1619 Project. By now many of us have either viewed ads about, seen references to, or read directly from this initiative of The New York Times, which marks four centuries since slaves first came to America. It sounds like an admirable initiative, no? After all, it’s good to remember our history, especially the bad

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  • American Prayer in the Midst of Crises

    American Prayer in the Midst of Crises0

    Several weeks ago, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gave a press conference on – what else? – the coronavirus. The press conference was, like many these days, a discussion of numbers and the problems of reopening the economy, but one statement was a bit startling. Discussing the hopeful sign of plateauing numbers, Cuomo expressed caution

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  • American Parents Spend 6 Hours Per Week on Their Kids’ Homework

    American Parents Spend 6 Hours Per Week on Their Kids’ Homework0

    Given the danger of violence in school these days, it’s not surprising that concerned parents would air their worries during water cooler chit-chat throughout the work day. Such was the recent case for a relative of mine. As she relayed to me, one of her co-workers noted that homeschooling seems to be the safest education

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