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Faith-Based Education Reform: Common Core as Standards-and-Testing Redux
Along with embracing belief over evidence, the public (along with political leadership) in the U.S. tends to lack historical context.
Big Spring
If you stop jailing people in The Land of The Free, a good chunk of America would wither up and die.
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Death Penalty Isn’t Necessary for Justice
The guilty pleas Monday by Alvin Watts and Jacob England to the killing of three African-Americans and the wounding of two others in a fit of racial rage brings …
Can Childhood Trauma Shorten Your Life?
Doctors may be overlooking a significant risk factor in disease.
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Defending What’s Mine: A Critique of ‘Prepper’ Philosophy
While it is important to note there has always been a survival culture in the U.S., it is the growing popularity, acceptance, and normalcy that accompany this current movement …
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Sikh Community Fights to Stop Meat Plant Next to Its Temple
Protesters from the Sikh community had filled the City Hall room where the Council was making its vote while more people stood outside with placards objecting to the new …
Youth Can Handle the Truth
This week we want to highlight some of the issues that are spurring youth to get active in their communities and what they are doing about them.
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Climate Protection: The New Insurgency
Faced with the failure of conventional lobbying, the climate protection movement is now turning to mass civil disobedienceu2014but we can take it further still.
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Test Score Driven Education Ignores Students
2014, an election year, offers an opportunity to change the education conversation. The American people are ready for it.
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GOP Refuses to Extend Jobless Benefits
Dale Sexton is one of the more than four million faces of the new American economy: the long-term unemployed, people who have been seeking work for six months or …