Via the Washington Post: A former Texas middle-school teacher who was impregnated by a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Alexandria Vera, 25, was facing up to 30 years behind bars after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child in November. She admitted to police that a relationship that
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In America, since the first half of the 19th century, much energy has been expended on offering education to all citizens. At first, this desire for universal education was for an education in the basics. It gave birth to the Common School Movement (the progenitor of America’s public school system), which was guided in part
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The media narrative on American politics has become so tedious you don’t have to listen anymore. Every story seems to follow a formula, and never more so on than on the Martin Luther King holiday. Every headline proclaims how black Americans are horrified at Trump’s insensitivity to the historical plight of blacks in the civil
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When it comes to school, educators always know best, right? This assumption was challenged by Jay Matthews in The Washington Post over the weekend. After reporting on an incident at a high caliber high school where parents felt educators and administrators were not listening to their concerns, Matthews noted: “Failure to tell parents what is
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1. “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.” – How Long, Not
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As The Washington Post reported, the Library of Congress had a special visitor Wednesday: 4-year-old Daliyah Arana. But Daliyah wasn’t visiting the library as just any old tourist. She was visiting as the “librarian of the day.” According to the WaPo, Daliyah attained this special status for her stellar reading ability. Even though she has
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