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  • 3 Social Factors That Led To America’s Education System

    3 Social Factors That Led To America’s Education System0

    • December 12, 2014

    If you want to gauge the future of the American education system, you have to understand its beginnings. When it comes to education, Americans are all Massachusettsans at heart. In the 1830s, the state of Massachusetts led the charge for the Common School Movement that was to sweep across America. Borrowing from recently created systems

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  • 3 Simple Ways to Become a Better Reader

    3 Simple Ways to Become a Better Reader1

    • July 15, 2015

    I’ve loved books ever since I was a small child. As an expression of my love, I always tried to treat them carefully and respectfully, never throwing them around and never – Heaven forbid! – writing in them. While the respect my younger self had for books was certainly praiseworthy, I discovered that my determination to not write

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  • 3 Simple Criteria for Choosing Books

    3 Simple Criteria for Choosing Books0

    Over the years, I’ve heard a number of teachers and parents say a variation of the following: “I don’t care what the child reads, just as long as he is reading!” This statement always makes me uneasy. I can see the need to give a child interesting material, but I question the wisdom of letting

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  • 3 Reasons Why We Should Get Rid of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

    3 Reasons Why We Should Get Rid of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings0

    I think it’s time to seriously consider getting rid of these hearings for Supreme Court nominees. The Constitution doesn’t require a hearing. All it says is that the Senate must give advice and consent. You can do that with a simple up-or-down vote. And let’s be real: Do we really think one senator’s vote is

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  • 3 Reasons Why the Pets-Babies Comparison Just Doesn’t Work

    3 Reasons Why the Pets-Babies Comparison Just Doesn’t Work0

    “Happy Father’s Day to all dads of human and fur babies!”  This was the first thing that appeared in my Facebook newsfeed last Sunday. Like many people, I have the bad habit of checking my social media accounts as soon as I wake up. When I saw this, I rolled over and buried my face

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  • 3 Reasons Why Laura Ingalls Wilder Was a Good Writer

    3 Reasons Why Laura Ingalls Wilder Was a Good Writer0

    Recently, an interesting but telling scene from These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder has been running through my mind. As the book explains, teenage Laura had just completed her first teaching stint in another school and was happily settling back into life as a student in her home school. On her first day

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