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Thank you, PolitiFact!0
- August 19, 2015
If you’re familiar with the federal government’s budgeting process and you follow social media, your head has probably exploded at least a dozen times when you see misleading information circulated as truth. Of course, countering it every time is exhausting. Who wants to take the time to go dig up the budget, make the images,
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A Letter from World War I 0
- August 18, 2015
My great grandfather, Harold Schuler, served in the U.S. Army on the European war theater from December 1917 to May 1919. I’m not sure how much action he saw, but his notebook entry and letter below provides a small glimpse into what soldiers experienced during the “Great War.” Here is his notebook entry from August
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Do they really need all those gadgets?0
- August 18, 2015
The video above, with English kids talking about how their parents use their electronic devices, is either hilarious or terrifying, depending on your point of view. Based on these conversations, market researchers for Start-rite, a British company which sells stylish shoes for children, reached some startling conclusions about how youngsters used their mobile phones, tablets
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This Unique Form of Education is Putting Normal District Schools to Shame 0
- August 18, 2015
We’ve reached the dog days of summer, and it’s time for many people to head back to school. Increasingly, though, many children are not heading back to the normal district school to which they are assigned. Instead, many parents are choosing to send their children to language immersion schools where almost all of the instruction
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Famous People Who Achieved Success Later in Life 0
- August 18, 2015
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We Need More Gentlemen Today 1
- Culture
- August 18, 2015
Few treatises on education have had as much influence in modern times as John Henry Newman’s (1801-1890) Idea of a University – a collection of lectures first published in 1852. One scholar has gone so far as to write that “modern thinking on university education is a series of footnotes to Newman’s lectures and essays.”
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