The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has publicly admitted its mistakes in trying to reform schools. The failure of a number of its education initiatives just underscores the fact that the foundation doesn’t really have a clue as to what makes for good schools. The lesson may just be that they should stay out of education
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Sometimes it’s good to ponder your life through the works of the past. Here are two for you: When You Are Old When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and
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In 1908, Minnesota 8th graders were expected to answer a number of questions on American history in order to gain entrance to high school. A sampling of these questions is found in the quiz below. Keep in mind that the 8th graders of 1908 didn’t have the luxury of multiple choice answers! Do you think
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These days it’s popular to view whites and their history as particularly barbaric. We’re told to look at the wars, look at the colonization, look at the slavery. But those making those remarks seem to have forgotten that all of those things have taken place in nearly every civilization and by every race throughout history.
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