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By Michael P. Norton STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE With time running out again on comprehensive sex education legislation, state Representative James O'Day says he's trying to convince his Massachusetts House colleagues that the bill is not about encouraging young people to be sexually active.
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Brett Kavanaugh once was an altar boy. He now volunteers as a lector in his parish. He serves meals to the homeless, dishing out food alongside a priest. And Kavanaugh coaches his daughter's Catholic Youth Organization basketball team. Sounds untrustworthy.
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Since the disappointing results of the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress tests were made public on April 10, it has been puzzling that no one at the National Assessment Governing Board, including its chairman (former Governor John Engler of Michigan), has suggested that Common Core-aligned standards and tests might
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Massachusetts can't sustain 29 state college campuses and within the next 10 years will have to reduce the number, the president of the University of Massachusetts said. "Demographically, there's no way that 29 will survive," said Marty Meehan, president of the University of Massachusetts,
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The deaths, in the same week last month, of the great scholar of the Middle East Bernard Lewis and the great scholar of Russia Richard Pipes are a warning to American conservatives: don't give up on the universities. Lewis and Pipes are being rightfully remembered for their influence
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When I graduated with my bachelor's degree in English at the end of the 2011 academic year, I panicked. If you've seen John Mullaney's new Netflix special Kid Gorgeous, you'll know why it wasn't just the springtime sun on my
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We are regularly told what the public or Congress or schools should do to increase school safety and prevent more school shootings. We even have a former U.S. Secretary of Education (Arne Duncan) suggesting that high school students not attend school until schools have been made safer for them.
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A recent graduate of Providence College who made statements supporting the Christian view of marriage has lost his job at a bookstore on campus after an administrator got a no-trespass order against him following an encounter over her job performance. Michael Smalanskas, who graduated this past Sunday, was irked by
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