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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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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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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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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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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“Partnership, not conflict,” were the words spoken by President-elect Donald Trump during his acceptance speech. That collaborative approach is what my scholarship on good governance shows is required for effective public administration. That is also what effective and sustainable leadership demands of the Republican Party, which is now in a position to govern with a
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