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More than a dozen half-baked bills in a number of states would weaken the teaching of evolution and other “controversial” topics

"No president or presidential candidate has offered a proposal so bold and sweeping."

White students have lower exposure to students of other races than any other group of students. The typical white student attends a school that is 69% white.

During that semester I taught six separate classes and was responsible for more than 250 students. Despite the pretense that real instruction was taking place, teachers like me were largely engaged in crowd management and little more.

The Secretary of Education has been touring the country to promote her plan.

Does the U.S. government’s priority for military spending explain, at least partially, the discrepancy between the worldwide preeminence of the U.S. armed forces and the feeble global standing of major American domestic institutions?

Howard Zinn's life was a model for left-wing intellectuals to both produce and take action to transform the world.