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  • Policing the Public Schools: How Schools Are Becoming Even More Like Prisons

    Policing the Public Schools: How Schools Are Becoming Even More Like Prisons0

    In his book, Free To Learn, Boston College psychology professor Peter Gray makes the connection between school and prison. He writes: “Everyone who has ever been to school knows that school is prison, but almost nobody beyond school age says it is. It’s not polite.” It’s a prison in that young people are compelled to

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  • Police Encounters and Race

    Police Encounters and Race0

    “Son, you are going to jail,” the policeman told the terrified young man he had just stopped on a Virginia highway during a snowstorm. He put the young man, who was scared speechless, in the back seat of the police car, and accused the young man of damaging a guard rail on Route 29 with

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  • Police Cite Bogus ‘New Law’ to Get Uber Driver to Stop Recording

    Police Cite Bogus ‘New Law’ to Get Uber Driver to Stop Recording0

    Jesse Bright was driving Uber when he was pulled over by Wilmington, N.C., police officers, who arrested the passenger he was driving. When police asked to search Bright’s vehicle, he politely declined and informed officers he was recording the stop. Police didn’t seem to like that. They demanded Bright stop recording, and when he refused

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  • Police Are Safer than Ever

    Police Are Safer than Ever0

    Following the tragic and horrible events in Dallas last week, it is important to grieve and to take stock of what led to that fateful evening that ended with five police officers killed. But it’s also worth taking a step back and putting the problems and threats the police face today into perspective. The sniper

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  • Poetry: Teaching to Think

    Poetry: Teaching to Think0

    • September 30, 2015

    While paging through an 1894 Minnesota high school manual, I came across the recommendations for literature classes. Although it appears that students were expected to read many books on their own (and then present them to the class in twenty minute talks), the following list offers some suggestions for classroom readings:  As I looked through

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  • Poetry in Prose: The Genius of J.R.R. Tolkien

    Poetry in Prose: The Genius of J.R.R. Tolkien1

    Young John Ronald Reuel Tolkien curled up with his favorite book, reading the tale of Sigurd who slew the dragon Fafnir. Schooled at home, Tolkien’s widowed mother taught him Latin and French and grammar, explaining that “green great dragon” was incorrect—it should be “great green dragon.” Tolkien wanted to know why. Language fascinated him. After

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