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A smile came to my face as I drove past a school this morning. No longer was it a desolate ghost town; instead, I had to navigate a long line of cars and buses waiting to turn into the parking lot to drop children off. While it’s good to see kids going back to school,
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A couple of years ago, my son and his family moved to Topsail Island, a barrier island south of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Only one roadway, Island Drive, runs north to south, which means it is molasses-thick with traffic in the summer, especially on weekends when tourists are either leaving or arriving at the houses
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If you were an author of school textbooks and wanted to teach a small child that 2+2=4, how would you choose to do so? Perhaps you might draw a picture of two easily-understandable items like apples, next to another two apples, followed by a final illustration of four apples, these simple and innocent images linked
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McGuffey Readers were used by elementary students across the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries and still provide excellent lessons not only for children, but adults as well.
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In 1965, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D) published what is commonly known today as The Moynihan Report. For anyone studying the decline of community and the rise of destructive social pathologies, it is a must-read document that has been proven prescient over the years. As the Report focuses primarily on the Black community, Sen. Moynihan
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During the weekend riots and protests in Minneapolis, I saw a news reporter stop a young protester on the street and ask him why he was protesting. “Stop, don’t shoot,” he said. The reporter, wanting something more than this, asked him again, trying to make clear that he was asking for the actual reason the
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