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COVID-19 vaccine may have arrived, but government lockdowns are far from over. On Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson reinstated a strict lockdown in the United Kingdom, citing a surge in infections and hospitalizations fueled by what officials say is a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus. “It is clear that we need to do more
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A building may appeal for its formal perfection, its harmony of proportion and the grammatical discipline with which it matches part to part. But it may appeal despite lacking those things, by offering enticing glimpses of the life within, intriguing apertures, invitations to enter, to explore, to imagine. The much-loved villages of Provence and the
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March is National Reading Month. Inspired by the March 2 birthday of Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, the event is aimed at children, families, and communities, with a heavy emphasis on the younger crowd. Given the decline in reading and the increasing failure by many public schools to teach grade-level literacy, this emphasis should be applauded.
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We hear much today about the “boy crisis, the “trouble with boys,” and a “war against boys.” These problems are real. The lack of father figures and male mentors, the overwhelming predominance of female teachers in the early school grades, an obsession in many cases with video games, the prejudice of both the classroom and
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It was, Nzinga Terrell-Brown hoped, the beginning of her dream of becoming a teacher. In 2018, when she got a job as a teacher’s aide, her future looked bright. But a couple months in, she was fired—and didn’t know why. She got another teacher’s aide job but was abruptly fired again. What was going on?
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In the months leading up to my marriage, I was regaled with a variety of online content about life as a fiancée as the tech overlords deduced I was about to wed. One common problem I observed during this period regarded the writing of wedding vows. My wedding occurred just before AI was used for
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