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Parents may have noticed a change in the history and social studies curriculum at their children's schools after 2018. Where once American history courses focused on our country's founding principles, their roots, and their application, soon such courses started to emphasize political activism and the grievances
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President Donald Trump is planning to issue his final pardons tomorrow. Lori Laughlin and the other college admissions bribery scandal parents and coaches ought to make the list. National head shaking – while understandable – has clouded analysis of the case against them.
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Joe Biden is a believing, praying, church-going, deeply committed Roman Catholic who believes the government should allow babies to be killed before they're born and should force other people to pay for it through their tax dollars. That's a fair summation of a 2,166-word news
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Fewer Massachusetts children than usual are attending public schools this year — but the homeschool student body may have doubled. Statewide enrollment in Massachusetts public schools was down 3.9 percent from last year as of October 1, 2020, according to data provided to New Boston Post by the Massachusetts Department
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Whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden wins in the presidential election of 2020, we need a new kind of Secretary of Education — someone who has classroom teaching experience beyond grade 5 and has administered an elementary, middle, or high school for at least a couple of years or so. This
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More than 600 students and alumni at a Catholic college in Worcester are expressing outrage that the chaplain's office of the school sent out an email message expressing support for Catholic teaching on same-sex marriage. The group is threatening to withhold donations to the school unless school officials
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"… reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." — George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
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Will the coronavirus emergency result in more families in Massachusetts homeschooling their kids this fall? The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is not ready to say, but some parents are saying yes.
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