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  • Turns Out That Students Like Real Books, Not Electronic Ones

    Turns Out That Students Like Real Books, Not Electronic Ones0

    Increasingly, many school referenda are based on the need to buy iPads or other tech devices for students. These devices, it is implied, will diminish achievement gaps and bring learning to new heights. However, research has shown such “needs” to be misguided, particularly as “there is little solid evidence that greater computer use among students

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  • Turning Pain Into a Blessing

    Turning Pain Into a Blessing2

    When my editor offered the opportunity to write some stories on folks whose health was adversely affected by the COVID-19 vaccine, I jumped at the chance. The assignment may sound depressing to some, but I knew it was important to write the stories of a group of people who’ve been marginalized and ignored. What I

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  • Turning Fatherless Boys Into Faithful Men

    Turning Fatherless Boys Into Faithful Men1

    Last week I watched another shooting unfold in my proverbial backyard, this time at the famous Mall of America, in Bloomington, MN. Thankfully, the incident wasn’t a mass shooting with multiple innocents getting mowed down in the corridors of the mall. Instead, it was an apparent gang-related shooting, with one gang member allegedly attempting to

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  • Turning America’s Sighing Into Singing

    Turning America’s Sighing Into Singing0

    “I hear America singing,” Walt Whitman once wrote. Today I hear America sighing. In a survey conducted in January 2021, 45 percent of Democrats, 67 percent of Republicans, and 59 percent of Independents believed that the country was heading the wrong direction. In addition, 13 percent of Democrats, and 17 percent of Republicans and Independents were unsure

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  • Turkey on the Brink of Democide as Pivotal Referendum Looms

    Turkey on the Brink of Democide as Pivotal Referendum Looms0

    The Turkish people will vote in a momentous constitutional referendum on April 16. If adopted, the proposals would drastically alter the country’s political system. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) introduced the 18 proposed changes to the constitution, with the support of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Together they secured the minimum 330

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  • Tulsi’s Last Stand

    Tulsi’s Last Stand0

    It was already one of the most memorable moments of the Democratic presidential debates in this young election cycle. “Leaders as disparate as President Obama and President Trump have both said they want to end U.S. involvement in Afghanistan but it isn’t over for America,” observed moderator Rachel Maddow. “Why isn’t it over? Why can’t

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