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  • A Prison Mentality Is Killing Our Schools

    A Prison Mentality Is Killing Our Schools0

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  • 5 Reasons Why Fake News is Here to Stay

    5 Reasons Why Fake News is Here to Stay0

    In case you haven’t been paying attention, mainstream news outlets have been screaming about the problem of fake news on social media. Some have argued that the platform engineers should filter out this false content. Others blame cyber-entrepreneurs for the fake news. Still others think it’s caused by web-bots. And now there’s even speculation that

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  • Wealthy Designers Refuse Service to Melania Trump

    Wealthy Designers Refuse Service to Melania Trump0

    People magazine recently reported news that a number of prominent fashion designers have refused to work with Melania Trump because they do not approve of her, or more likely, her husband’s politics and language. Given Donald Trump’s often offensive way of speaking about, well, almost everything, that is understandable. Thus, they conclude, if you design

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  • Louisa May Alcott’s Insightful Advice for Young Women

    Louisa May Alcott’s Insightful Advice for Young Women0

    Google’s Doodle greeted me this morning with the reminder that November 29th is Louisa May Alcott’s birthday. Alcott, the famed author from the late 1800s, was a bit of a mover and shaker in society, particularly in her roles as an abolitionist and feminist. Yet Ms. Alcott’s feminism wasn’t quite the categorization we consider it

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  • Journalist Cites Bogus Climate Stat in Speech on ‘Fake News’

    Journalist Cites Bogus Climate Stat in Speech on ‘Fake News’0

    At a recent awards ceremony, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour denounced what she described as a “tsunami of fake news, aka lies” that occurred during the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle.   Amanpour, a British-Iranian journalist and former host of ABC’s This Week, made the remarks during a speech she gave after receiving the Burton Benjamin Memorial

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  • Is it Time to Give Teachers More Autonomy in the Classroom?

    Is it Time to Give Teachers More Autonomy in the Classroom?0

    In a recent article for The Atlantic, author and teacher Timothy Walker ponders the question of what happens when Finnish teachers are placed in American classrooms. Long the poster child of modern western education success stories, the Finnish education system attributes part of its success to more recess and greater teacher autonomy. It is this

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