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Slavery Lesson Exposes Flaws in U.S. Education
The case of a black boy in Ohio who felt humiliated after being assigned to participate in a mock slave auction exposes a number of flaws in our education system. Nikko Burton’s fifth-grade class in Columbus, Ohio, was divided into “masters and slaves” as part of a social studies lesson about slavery. The 10-year-old black…
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In Defense of Teachers and Teachers' Unions
In the 1973 Woody Allen movie Sleeper, the protagonist wakes up 200 years in the future, where he is told that the old world was destroyed when “a man named Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead.” It was just five years after a bitter, racially divisive teachers’ strike in New York City, and the union leader was…
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What My Son Taught Me
What’s that conversation every father dreads as your son approaches those dangerous teenage years? Sex? No. How to deal with the cops. I’ve never been pulled over while driving in a ”nice” neighborhood; my son was stopped a block from our apartment in Manhattan and asked by the patrolman what he was doing in ”this…
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