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  • Washington Post Concedes That Government Spending on Education Has Increased, Not Decreased

    Washington Post Concedes That Government Spending on Education Has Increased, Not Decreased0

    “The biggest problem plaguing U.S. public schools [is] a lack of resources.”  So claims Robert Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, in an op-ed published last week in The Washington Post. In fact, Pianta asserts, government spending on K-12 education actually has declinedsince the 1980s.  These claims are inaccurate, as federal government

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  • Washington on the 3 Qualities a President Should Have

    Washington on the 3 Qualities a President Should Have0

    On June 15th, 1775, the newly formed American Congress appointed George Washington as the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. As was the case when eventually elected as America’s first president, Washington’s letters to family and friends demonstrate his extreme reluctance in accepting such an honorable, but demanding, position. The following letter to his friend Colonel

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  • Washington Irving on the Problem with Christmas

    Washington Irving on the Problem with Christmas0

    There are generally two main complaints I hear every time Christmas rolls around. The first is that Christmas has become hectic and exhausting. The second is that it has been stripped of all that is meaningful and neutralized so as not to give offense. I thought of these two complaints when I came upon a

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  • Was Your High School English Class Better than Your Grandma’s?

    Was Your High School English Class Better than Your Grandma’s?0

    • July 30, 2015

    My grandmother passed away a few months ago. While looking through her belongings, I discovered several scrapbooks from her school days in the 1930s and 40s. One page in the scrapbook focuses on her 9th-grade English course in a small, rural high school in Minnesota. Pasted to the page is a workbook of sample questions

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  • Was Trump Reasonable on Immigration?

    Was Trump Reasonable on Immigration?0

    Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump’s speech on Monday following the Orlando massacre has made some waves. Whether or not you agree with Trump, some of his points on immigration are worth pondering. The entire transcript of his speech is available from Politico.  When Trump describes what he wants to do if he is elected, he stated: The

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  • Was This Man the Founding Father of Fascism?

    Was This Man the Founding Father of Fascism?0

    Have you heard of the “great man” theory of history? The meaning is obvious from the words. The idea is that history moves in epochal shifts under the leadership of visionary, bold, often ruthless men who marshal the energy of masses of people to push events in radical new directions. Nothing is the same after

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