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  • Could You Pass New York’s Common Core Algebra Test?

    Could You Pass New York’s Common Core Algebra Test?0

      Concerned that students were coming to college ill-prepared, the New York Board of Regents made the state’s algebra test harder, and aligned it with the Common Core.     The percentage of students who passed dropped from 72 percent to 63 percent.    At the same time, the minimum passing score is expected to

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  • 16 Things Mark Twain Actually Said

    16 Things Mark Twain Actually Said0

    1. “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”   2. “Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.”   3. “Definition of a classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”   4. “Familiarity breeds contempt — and children.”   5. “Always do right. This

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  • 16 SOURCED Aristotle Quotes

    16 SOURCED Aristotle Quotes0

    1. “All men desire by nature to know.” ~ Metaphysics 2. “Man is by nature a political animal.” ~ Politics 3. “One swallow does not a summer make.” ~ Nicomachean Ethics 4. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” ~ On the Parts of Animals 5. “Piety requires us to honor

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  • The Dangers of Entangling Alliances

    The Dangers of Entangling Alliances0

    Not a few people around the world have been taken aback and rightly concerned by the shooting down of a Russian fighter plane by the Turks. No doubt, few would want to see a conflict between Russia and Turkey. Worse, though, is the question of whether or not such a conflagration would involve the United

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  • Retailers Rediscovering Rest on Thanksgiving Weekend

    Retailers Rediscovering Rest on Thanksgiving Weekend0

    Ever been disheartened by the scores of cars you see in mall parking lots while driving home from Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma’s? The recent push to expand Black Friday onto the Thanksgiving holiday itself seems to signal that the days of rest, quietness, and family time are over. But after a few years of this

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  • On Americans On Islam

    On Americans On Islam0

    • November 25, 2015

    Americans, oh Americans. It seems that Americans today are in a frenzy over Islam – and what we hear is that either Islam is a great, peaceful, edifying religion with a few wingnut freaks (similar to Westboro Baptists, etc.), or that, say, something like one in three Muslims is teaching their 7 year-old how to

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  • Gratitude Lists of 5 Famous Americans

    Gratitude Lists of 5 Famous Americans0

    Thanksgiving presents us with an opportunity to pause and reflect on the blessings we have been given. To get your personal gratitude juices flowing, check out the gratitude lists which five famous Americans once composed. They demonstrate, as John Adams once said, that despite trials and difficulties in life, “Gratitude is always in one’s Power.” 

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  • Will Smith: We’re All Prejudiced

    Will Smith: We’re All Prejudiced0

    • November 24, 2015

    “Raaacist!” Ever had someone playfully call you that? Society has used the “R” word so much that it’s almost become a joke uttered every time someone makes a comment about anyone – even of the same skin color. Actor Will Smith recently noted the overuse of this word and made some thought-provoking comments on the

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  • Three Approaches to Suffering

    Three Approaches to Suffering0

    Writing from Britain during some of the darkest days of World War II, Catholic mystic Caryll Houselander published This War is the Passion in the hope that it would help Britons deal with the constant stress and anxiety as well as, and most importantly, the suffering that comes from war and life. While she wrote

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