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On the face of it, it would seem reasonable to believe that education policy makers could learn much from successful policies and programs. But they often don't. Here are two relatively clear examples of policy makers failing to learn from effective policies/programs. In both cases, the policy
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It's 7 p.m. on a weeknight, and around 100 professionals from commercial and investment banks, brokerage and investment management firms, and other financial service companies are meeting in Boston. Arriving after work, the attendees have put their workday routines aside for a couple of hours, gathering for
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For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me, it is a prison. — Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2; William Shakespeare
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Did U.S. Representative Christopher Collins commit the federal crime of securities fraud when he spoke to his son, Cameron, on the phone shortly after he found out bad news about an Australian biotechnology company that they both held shares in? The answer may depend in part on which one
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In 1630, John Winthrop, the leader of the Puritan founders who landed in Boston, delivered what would become a famous sermon just before the first group of Massachusetts Bay Colonists departed for America on the ship Arbella. The sermon, titled "A Model of Christian Charity," is one of
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The decision by officials of the city of Columbus, Ohio to jettison its namesake's public holiday without even a public discussion spotlights disturbing trends in our country. To begin with, there's the obvious: The city gets its name from Christopher Columbus, who began European exploration and
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6. Mazie Hirono Went To Georgetown's Law School U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) often appears dumb as a rock while combining malice, bad manners, and poor logic.
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Recently the Israel-American Council, a national network of Israelis living in America, took the extraordinary step of circulating a petition to demand that the Newton School Department take action on the "anti-Israel bias in the Newton Schools" which is "causing a serious rift between students and is
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