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School Is for Learning to Read
The most important thing schools can do is teach children how to read. If you can read, you can learn…
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The Best Cities for Generation Z
Jumping into adulthood has been tough of late. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, young adults scurried back to their parents’…
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August Couldn’t End Soon Enough for Stumbling Yankees
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Maybe, as things went upside down on them in August, the Yankees simply were not sizing things…
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In Seattle, It’s Almost Normal
On Feb. 9, 2020, the Seattle Asian Art Museum reopened after a three-year, $56 million dollar renovation and expansion that…
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Where Exactly Is Times Square? It’s Complicated.
Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we will look at Times Square — what its boundaries are, and why that question…
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School Is for Everyone
For the majority of human history, most people didn’t go to school. Formal education was a privilege for the Alexander…
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School Is for Merit
In 1982, as a 5-foot-0 teen at Morgantown High School in the foothills of West Virginia’s Appalachians, I stepped forward…
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School Is for Making Citizens
Why do we have public schools? To make young people into educated, productive adults, of course. But public schools are…
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Please Don’t Make a Tolkien Cinematic Universe
In the months leading up to its premiere this Friday, Amazon Prime’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of…
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The Mets Pull One Back in a Fun Win Over the Dodgers
On a shelf in his spare locker at Citi Field, Brandon Nimmo has a baseball with a series of markings…