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Brown University's student protesters have done heroic things despite an administration that often isn't on board for constructive change, a graduating senior told a commencement crowd Sunday. Ruth Scott Miller, of Anchorage, Alaska, who describes herself as part Dena'ina Athabaskan (an Alaska indigenous tribe)
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In the final two readings of a recent Saturday's Torah portion (Acharei Mos (after the death)), G-d told the Hebrews that incest, bestiality, and homosexuality were prohibited sexual activities and that the Canaanite nations defiled themselves by engaging in these forbidden and abominable practices. Refraining from engaging in
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In his taped presidential campaign announcement, former Vice President Joe Biden began on a sublime note citing the Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," he intoned, "that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights." Then he
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When the woman showed me her daughter's photos, I thought nothing of it, except to relish in the beauty of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. We were aboard a Delta flight out of Logan. My son settled in by window, and me in the middle, when
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The mildness of Polish conservative Ryszard Legutko's classroom comments on the campus of Middlebury College last week highlight the silliness of the planned campus protest that led to the cancellation of his scheduled public speech. Legutko is a philosopher and a mainstream political figure in Poland – he'
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State-mandated tests must by state law be based on a state's official standards. That is why the tests currently given in the Bay State (aka MCAS 2.0) are aligned to Common Core. MCAS 2.0 tests are based on or aligned to the Common Core standards for
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By Katie Lannan STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Students, educators and others who say the cost of a college education has ballooned out of control took their calls for relief to the State House on Thursday and said that if lawmakers don't act, they're prepared to ask
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By Katie Lannan STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE FALL RIVER — Forty percent of students in public K-12 schools in Massachusetts are children of color, but only 6 percent of teachers in those same schools are people of color, Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeff Riley told lawmakers Monday.
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