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As the dean of a prominent graduate school of education noted in an article published several years ago: "Schools are not the major cause of the achievement gap." He also noted how ineffective most education reforms have been and how little improvement we have seen. It is understandable
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We all live in a moment in history where it is all-politics-all-the-time. Everything from our health to our wealth, from the womb to the tomb, is viewed through the lens of our increasingly divisive politics. The resulting distortions are many. The most serious is language, the very tool we use
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Each year, just before the Jewish New Year, I visit the same Central Massachusetts apple orchard to buy apples. It's a tradition in my family. It goes along with the practice of eating apples and honey on the holiday to symbolize hope for a sweet year ahead.
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It must take courage to become a Catholic priest these days. The culture is increasingly secularized, and faith is ridiculed or under suspicion everywhere, from universities to the government. Seminaries that train future priests must prepare them for the negativity they will face.
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In his marvelously insightful book, A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr., Alvin S. Felzenberg recalls the 1960 presidential contest when the National Review founder saw then-candidate Richard Nixon as "less the leader of the GOP than as the 'amalgamator' of
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Sunday, September 17 marks the 230rd anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution. On September 17, 1787, 39 out of the 55 delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the Constitution of the United States and submitted it to the 13 states to be ratified by each
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The biological male formerly known as Bradley Edward Manning has two qualifications for becoming a visiting fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: betraying the country and seeking to have genitalia chopped off. Imagine some other former U.S. Army specialist getting an appointment at Harvard without those
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The concepts of pro-life and pro-choice are routinely placed in opposition to each other, dueling philosophies competing for adherents. Pro-life prioritizes the protection of innocent human life above other claims; pro-choice demands individual autonomy above all else. In brief form, that sums up each position. For obvious reasons, the political
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