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Be a Happier Parent… Or Laugh Trying 0
- Family
- May 9, 2019
There is no doubt that parents today face tremendous challenges. Sometimes these challenges are overwhelming and stressful. Parents of young children and teens will appreciate Betsy Kerekes’ wisdom and comic relief in her book, Be a Happier Parent or Laugh Trying. In this interview, she shares with Mary Cooney some advice on how to be
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What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Should Know About Her Garbage Disposal 0
- History
- May 9, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is from New York, where garbage disposals are not very common in apartments because they were only legalized in the 1990s, as incredible as that seems. But now she lives in D.C., and she has discovered that there is one in her apartment. It permits the user to push down food scraps rather
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Public Schools Aren’t Taking Security Seriously 0
- Culture
- May 9, 2019
Public high schools still aren’t taking school security seriously. Last month, hundreds of thousands of students in the Denver area stayed home from school when a woman in Florida suggested online that she was “obsessed” with the Columbine shootings. The woman, named Sol Pais, disappeared from her home near Miami in mid-April. Soon after, her
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Struggling to Find That ‘Greatest Generation’ Sequel 0
- Culture
- May 8, 2019
Here’s some interesting and revealing news: “To Stand Out, the Army Picks a New Uniform With a World War II Look.” That was a headline in The New York Times on May 5, and it speaks to the fact that World War II, more and more, is the historical and civic touchstone of American life. The Army uniform in
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Why Schools Must Stop Relying on ‘Best Practices’ When Teaching Writing 0
- Education
- May 8, 2019
When it comes to writing, American kids just don’t cut it. Only 27 percent of eighth grade students achieve proficiency in the subject, according to The Nation’s Report Card. That shouldn’t surprise us given the type of writing instruction which takes place in schools. Today’s writing instruction, a recent op-ed from The Hechinger Report explains,
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The Soviet and Nazi Inception: A Married Ideology 0
- History
- May 8, 2019
It has become fashionable to wear Che Guevara or red hammer-and-sickle t-shirts as a mode of social protest against the oppression of Western society. Those who fight the injustice of Western democracy often are readily accepted and celebrated throughout American academia as they don these symbols of resistance. Would these same heroes of justice and
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