Last night, one of my family members sat down at the computer and started googling. When I asked what she was looking for, she flashed a guilty smile and admitted that she was “cramming” in an attempt to figure out which candidate to vote for on Super Tuesday. My family member – and others like
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It’s Super Tuesday! A day in which over 10 states cast their primary or caucus votes for the 2016 presidential campaigns. While some barbs are thrown at the opposite party, most of the fighting is internal. And like a fight at a family reunion its deeply personal and bound to leaving lasting wounds and broken
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After tragic events such as the shootings at Columbine, Newtown, and other schools, education officials are understandably anxious to prevent more cases such as these. For that reason, many schools have tightened bans against weapons, violence, and other questionable behaviors. But do these bans sometimes go overboard and actually hurt kids who are good students,
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1. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” 2. “The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.” 3. “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at
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There is a tendency in some quarters to dismiss the importance of history. In doing so, its role has been diminished in learning. To this truth, there can be no doubt. The most current data available from the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ (NAEP) The Nation’s Report Card, a gold standard of sorts when it
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It’s a common conundrum at the end of a meal at a restaurant: How to split the bill fairly? Rather than using that boring process of figuring out who ordered and ate what, a new app called “Equipay” divides the bill based on group members’ demographic characteristics and the presumed wage gap that they suffer
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