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Public Education Advocates Want More Tax Dollars, Think Jamming Massachusetts House Telephone Lines Is Way To Get It
By Colin A. Young STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Operators, take your positions.
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Time for Feds To Come Clean on ‘Nation’s Report Card’ Tests
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?, a Latin phrase found in the work of the Roman poet Juvenal, is commonly used to refer to the problem of how one monitors the actions of persons in positions of power. It means literally: Who will guard the guards? Example: We don't know
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Operation Innocence: Getting Serious About Protecting Our Kids in Schools
Late last month, we launched a task force called Operation Innocence. Our mission is very simple and very clear — to protect our children in schools by activating the most able-bodied and able-minded individuals in America and implementing common-sense solutions to stop school shootings.
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Should Local Taxpayers Pay for an Incoherent English Curriculum?
Individual secondary teachers often have had personalized and idiosyncratic goals for the elective courses they prepared and taught. What is not clear is why local taxpayers should have supported courses years ago that contributed to an incoherent school curriculum. Or why they support a K-12 reading and literature curriculum today
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Holy Cross Professor: Jesus Was A ‘Drag King’
Jesus of Nazareth appears as a "drag king" in the Gospels, healed the male slave-lover of a Roman soldier, and may not have been a biological male, a Holy Cross professor argues. Tat-siong Benny Liew, a professor of New Testament Studies at the College of the Holy Cross
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How To Teach Law To Millennials
I teach in a law school. I have previously recounted some of the provocative measures that I now find it necessary to use in the classroom. To prepare my students to receive an education in law I must first give them remedial instruction in critical and logical reasoning. I find
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Pro-Marriage Bulletin Posting Triggers Providence College Students
Students at Providence College upset by a resident assistant's posting of material supporting Catholic teaching about marriage are planning to hold a march against homophobia Friday night. Meanwhile, the college is investigating the appearance of a cartoon in a dorm bathroom showing the residential assistant being anally raped.
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Georgetown Finds An Exemplary Catholic — Would Mother Teresa Agree?
Could you find a better Catholic to honor than Senator Dick Durbin? Durbin sought legislation to force organizations to provide contraceptives among its health care benefits – even if such a mandate opposed an organization's beliefs (like, maybe, nuns).
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