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  • What If Grocery Stores Worked Like Public Schools?

    What If Grocery Stores Worked Like Public Schools?0

    One of the most important things to consider when buying a house is the quality of the grocery district. As the name implies, the grocery district determines which public grocery store you and your family get to use. District maps are drawn by the government to ensure each grocery store has an appropriate number of

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  • Two Branches of Government Are All We Have Left, Scholar Says

    Two Branches of Government Are All We Have Left, Scholar Says0

    We learn in elementary school that the American federal system is divided into three equal branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial. But is that still the case?   Mickey Edwards, a former Congressman from Oklahoma who spent 13 years teaching government at Harvard and Princeton, says no. Here is what he wrote in a recent

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  • School Reform is Missing a Key Ingredient

    School Reform is Missing a Key Ingredient0

    The last several decades have seen Americans wake up to the fact that their schools are failing. Nowhere is this more apparent than in student performance on national and international tests. Such results have caused American educators and policy makers to flounder around trying to find a way to set American students back on track;

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  • Joe Biden’s New Job at Penn is a Mystery

    Joe Biden’s New Job at Penn is a Mystery0

    Earlier this month, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported that former Vice President Joe Biden had officially been named a professor at Penn under the title of “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor.” There was talk that Biden would lead “the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement” from Washington, D.C. The Penn Biden Center doesn’t exist

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  • Immigration has become a ‘screaming match’ thanks to media bias

    Immigration has become a ‘screaming match’ thanks to media bias0

    Front page pictures of protests, horror stories about innocent victims, editorials denouncing the whole idea — are we getting the whole story about President Trump’s immigration crackdown? Where’s the discussion about necessary immigration reform? MercatorNet asked Christopher Harper, Professor of Journalism in the School of Media and Communication at Temple University what he thinks. * *

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  • Did Dem Leaders Stay ‘Firmly Seated’ During the Carryn Owens Applause?

    Did Dem Leaders Stay ‘Firmly Seated’ During the Carryn Owens Applause?0

    Last night Carryn Owens became, in the words of the New York Times, the face of bravery and perseverance in America.   The widow of Navy SEAL William (Ryan) Owens was invited to attend President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday, less than one month after her husband was slain in the in the Yakla

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  • Ash Wednesday Faux Pas: ‘Professor, you’ve got dirt on your forehead.’

    Ash Wednesday Faux Pas: ‘Professor, you’ve got dirt on your forehead.’0

    Back in college, I worked the snack bar for a few years. As it was a very small, liberal arts college, there was only one. You met a lot of people, saw your friends, and served your professors. Aside from making milk shakes, I enjoyed the work. I’ll never forget one Wednesday when my literature

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  • 1 in 5 Can’t Name an Author, New Survey Finds

    1 in 5 Can’t Name an Author, New Survey Finds0

    Last fall, Pew Research found that 27 percent of Americans had not read a book in the preceding year. Unfortunately, our friends across the pond aren’t much better in this respect. According to a 2014 survey, roughly 26 percent of adults in Great Britain admitted to not reading and finishing a book for pleasure. One

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  • Why Schools Need to Go Back to the Basics of Writing

    Why Schools Need to Go Back to the Basics of Writing0

    Once upon a time in America’s schools, teachers were instructed to teach their students the basics of good composition. According to Bernard Sheridan, a school superintendent in Massachusetts in 1917, these basics included: An absolute mastery of ‘the sentence idea.’ Freedom from glaring grammatical mistakes. Correct spelling of all ordinary words. Unfailing use of the

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