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By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Democrat for governor Jay Gonzalez said his plan to tax the endowments of wealthy private universities should not inhibit schools like Harvard University from funding research and financial aid, two reasons Democrats like U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren opposed the idea when President
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Editor's Note: An assistant professor at Brown University published a study this month in a peer-reviewed journal presenting evidence that rapid-onset gender dysphoria in teen-agers and young adults who didn't show any symptoms of it in childhood may be tied to binge-watching transgender-oriented YouTube videos and
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A northern Ohio public school teacher asked seventh and eighth grade students to pick eight of 12 hypothetical people to save based on occupation, race, religion, sex, age, nationality, and sexual orientation – with the remaining four doomed to destruction. Among the candidates: "a homosexual, male professional athlete"; "
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How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education By Arne Duncan Simon & Schuster, 256 pages, $26.99 According to the opening pages of Arne Duncan's memoir How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure
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A Maine professor disgusted with a left-wing public-employee union is suing to try to force the state university system to stop recognizing the union as representing him and to stop deductions from his paycheck from going to the union. Jonathan Reisman, a tenured associate professor of economics and public policy
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When visiting Catholic college campuses with their teen-age children, two friends of mine did not limit their fact-finding mission to tours and speeches. They wandered the campuses and asked various students where the chapel was, and, if the students knew, they asked what time Mass was. The answer was often
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A commemorative issue of Education Next published in the spring of 2016 was devoted to comments on James Coleman's 1966 report titled "Equality of Educational Opportunity." In his article in that issue, economist and education researcher Eric Hanushek quoted the report's central conclusion:
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More children are being hurt in their homes; at least, more cases are being reported in my state of Maine. An excellent piece of reporting by Eric Russell of the Maine Sunday Telegram in Portland focuses on the overwhelmed state's Department of Health and Human Services.
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