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  • Podcast: Teaching Character in School

    Podcast: Teaching Character in School0

    Missed our webinar last week on character education? Check out the podcast below to get caught up on what you missed! For an overview of the panelists, click here. Your browser does not support the audio element. Please us the download link below Download an Mp3 Save this article to favorites

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  • Plutarch’s 3 Tips for Choosing a School

    Plutarch’s 3 Tips for Choosing a School1

    Today’s education world is full of options. In fact, there are so many options that it can be tempting for parents to throw up their hands and just pick one without much thought. But such is a terrible move, according to the ancient Roman author Plutarch. He suggests the following three steps in choosing an

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  • Pliny’s ‘Natural History’ Offers Odd Home Remedies

    Pliny’s ‘Natural History’ Offers Odd Home Remedies2

    Gaius Plinius Secundus (more commonly known simply as Pliny or Pliny the elder) was a Roman naturalist and physician who lived during the dawn of the Roman Empire.   Pliny was born in 23 A.D. in Lombardy, a province in Northern Italy, and spent many years in the Roman army as an officer. In his

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  • Playing With Fire: Are We Witnessing the Death of Europe?

    Playing With Fire: Are We Witnessing the Death of Europe?0

    In the wake of the fire at Notre Dame cathedral, some online commentators speculated that arsonists might have sparked the blaze, hinting at Islamists or radical secularists. Others immediately launched a furious counterattack, accusing these writers of religious bigotry and racism by their rush to judgment. To a point, I would agree with these critics.

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  • Playing With Fire on Russia’s Borders

    Playing With Fire on Russia’s Borders0

    Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko has cleared out the encampment at his border crossing into Poland, where thousands of Middle Eastern migrants had been living in squalor. Last week, that border crossing was the site of clashes between asylum-seekers trying to push through the razor wire and Polish troops resisting with water cannons. While the crisis

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  • Playing Is Always Unsafe

    Playing Is Always Unsafe1

    The following note was passed along to us by a dad whose kids attend a public school in Texas. It says (emphasis mine): Parents we need your help in keeping our children safe at the playground after hours and on the weekends.   It is important that children are supervised at all times.   We

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