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  • Thinking Students Rank Last on the Government School Agenda

    Thinking Students Rank Last on the Government School Agenda0

    One of my favorite field trips as a child was my annual summer visit to a one-room schoolhouse where I spent the day dressed in an old-fashioned dress and bonnet, scratching away on a slate and learning lessons out of old McGuffey Readers. At the time, my delight in the McGuffey Readers stemmed from the

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  • Thinking Rationally about Health Care

    Thinking Rationally about Health Care0

    In order to make legislative choices about health care that are both humane and rational, we need to ask and discuss whether health care is a right or a commodity. If some sort or degree of health care is a right, we owe that care to each other regardless of individual ability to pay. If

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  • Thinking Free While Living With the Establishment

    Thinking Free While Living With the Establishment0

    This week I celebrated my 70th birthday. I like the sound of 70. In terms of human years that number seems possessed of dignity and wisdom, and though I may lack both attributes, 70 provides a façade leading others to think that age has endowed me with these prizes. Regardless, I have reached the age when

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  • Think You’re Bad at Math? You May Suffer from ‘Math Trauma’

    Think You’re Bad at Math? You May Suffer from ‘Math Trauma’1

    • November 1, 2018

    I teach people how to teach math, and I’ve been working in this field for 30 years. Across those decades, I’ve met many people who suffer from varying degrees of math trauma – a form of debilitating mental shutdown when it comes to doing mathematics. When people share their stories with me, there are common

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  • Think Trump is Hitler? Go to Dachau

    Think Trump is Hitler? Go to Dachau0

    Right now, someone in the media is finding another excuse to proclaim that Trump is Hitler, America is Germany 1933, and detention centers on the southern border are concentration camps. Recently I went to Dachau, just outside of Munich, to see a real concentration camp. The first thing you notice is the irony. The people

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  • Think the U.S. Is More Polarized Than Ever? You Don’t Know History

    Think the U.S. Is More Polarized Than Ever? You Don’t Know History0

    It has become common to say that the United States in 2020 is more divided politically and culturally than at any other point in our national past. As a historian who has written and taught about the Civil War era for several decades, I know that current divisions pale in comparison to those of the

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