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There is one good reason that the most recent review of research on teacher professional development in mathematics in the USA almost uniformly finds it ineffective: It doesn't lead to student gains. The majority of our K-12 teachers were in the bottom third of their academic cohort in
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For many Bay State Republicans, Governor Charlie Baker's administration is the advancement of a dishonest marketing campaign: Baker and Switch. (Run as a Republican, cozy up to Democrats, disown the Republican Party.) Rejected Republicans, perhaps feeling duped from day one, should take note. Baker's dispiriting drift
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A sad truth about modern Washington is that bipartisan consensus is not only rare, it's dangerous. In other words, when Republicans and Democrats agree on something, sometimes it means they both are wrong.
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In this country, you have the right to believe the lie that homosexuality and gender confusion are healthy, normal, or natural. But you don't have the right to make others live that lie. Yet, apparently, some Massachusetts legislators think they do.
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Have you ever criticized a posting on Facebook? Something you found offensive and outrageous? Would you be surprised if Facebook took down the offensive posting and punished the holder of the account that posted it?
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The author and reporter David Halberstam is having a bit of a moment. The Washington Post recently published a piece, headlined "The Greatest Reporter of Our Time," marking the tenth anniversary of his death. The New York Times caught Trump adviser Stephen Bannon reading a Halberstam book.
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The wailing and gnashing of teeth on the Left over President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate change agreement is not only overblown, it's puzzling. This was, after all, a campaign promise that Trump made. That he ever considered
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If Hillary Clinton "joining the resistance" wasn't enough, Harvard now has its own resistance, too. In response to President Donald J. Trump's election this past November, several students at the Harvard Kennedy School, a graduate school that grants master's degrees in public
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