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School districts all over Massachusetts are reflexively reinstating mask mandates for K-12 students and staff as the new school year draws near. Worcester, the second-largest school district in Massachusetts, is mandating masks for all staff and students, vaccinated or not, following the path paved by Boston Public Schools. The city&
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Bloomsbury Publishing Company is developing a series of books that presents research studies about re-inventing teacher education. Everybody know that teachers need better training than they're getting now. But for some reason many people don't seem to know what sort of training that should be. Most
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The school year is beginning, but with fewer Catholic schools. Hundreds closed last year in the United States. Maybe more should shut their doors, according to one popular American bishop.
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When the people speak, lawmakers ought to respect those decisions. Unfortunately, that doesn't always happen on Beacon Hill.
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The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy To Replace America As The Global Superpower By Michael Pillsbury 428 pages Macmillan It is hard not to notice how China has changed in the past half dozen years. China has cracked down on the country's 80-plus million Christians, persecuting
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday he is planning to resign in a couple of weeks in the wake of a report finding that he sexually harassed 11 women. His grabby, smutty, demeaning behavior with subordinates (as described in the New York Attorney General's report, and essentially
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This past April, NewBostonPost's Tom Joyce reported on a highly controversial 91-question survey of students at Milton's public high school and middle school that probed their feelings about race and human sexuality. Mr. Joyce's reporting included information about how high school students were essentially
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The salutatorian walked to the podium, she being the first of a handful of speakers at the college graduation. I have heard these student speeches before, often filled with prideful recognition – "look what we accomplished" – or ideology stemmed from relevant trends, and not from a well-formed conscience. But,
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