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  1. The Changing Nature Of Education

    No I'm not going to rant about how teachers don't get paid enough, how tests are bad, how the IQ of america is somewhere between a small rock and the average cockroach, mostly because I'm tired of hearing about it. I would like readers to consider the changing nature of information and how it affects how we think about school. Consider how much information is available at our fingertips, I'm not just talking about Wikipedia, though I think it is a large part, I would just like to ask when was ...
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  2. Chronic Complaints

    It seems, to me, that these day's political discussion seems rife with the, "America is being ruined", which is rather the political version of the "Things today aren't what they used to be". The remarks that the "America isn't what the founders intended" also hold little ground. Why should they get a vote, they're dead, England doesn't run on what Henry VIII or Elizabeth I wanted, Russia sure doesn't care what Czar Nicholas would have thought, Italy isn't bothered ...
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