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While teaching US history at a public charter high school, Julian Hipkins III noticed that students tended to assume that “race” was as old as mankind. “Almost like it was natural, a given,” as he put it.
So, using specialised lessons, Hipkins helped...
DATE: Apr 21, 2016
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In 1974, physicist Richard Feynman derided education research as a form of pseudoscience:
“I found pseudoscientific things that even more people believe, such as that we have some knowledge of how to educate. There are big schools of reading methods ...
DATE: Apr 20, 2016
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If Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had an official theme song, it would probably be The Way We Were, or maybe Archie and Edith Bunker’s rendition of Those Were the Days. More than anything else, Trump’s campaign rests on nostalgia for a bygone e...
DATE: Apr 19, 2016
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This week, US President Barack Obama will dive into a nest of vipers as venomous as anything Republicans can offer: Britain’s debate over whether to leave the European Union. As far as campaigners for Brexit are concerned, he is a most unwelcome gues...
DATE: Apr 19, 2016
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Call it “the big sort” or “demographic clusters” or whatever you like, it all comes down to the same thing: even as Americans talk more and more about diversity, they are increasingly dividing themselves into like-minded bubbles where other people, w...
DATE: Apr 18, 2016
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The Cambridge Elementary School Checkpoint results provide valid reason for Bermudians to ask: why are so many of our young people struggling academically and are they being prepared for success?
This also begs the question as to whether adequate and...
DATE: Apr 18, 2016
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In this technological phase of the world, there is rapid change and its consequences will not always be anticipated. This rapid change on most occasions introduces a new phase that if not taken into consideration, its effects can and will undermine o...
DATE: Apr 18, 2016
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Sir John Swan
It is disappointing, but not surprising that the One Bermuda Alliance continues to run from their record on tourism instead of standing up and taking accountability. It is the OBA that has presided over a 49-year low on air arrivals, a loss of over 2...
DATE: Apr 16, 2016
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Hillary Clinton has stuck close to Barack Obama throughout her presidential campaign, but at the Democratic debate in Brooklyn on Thursday night, she practically dragged a cardboard cut-out of the president on stage with her.
Her performance was par ...
DATE: Apr 16, 2016
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Fox News and Donald Trump are reaching a detente at last; yesterday Megyn Kelly went to Trump Tower for an hour-long meeting she described as allowing “a chance to clear the air”, after which Trump went to the Fox offices to have lunch with network c...
DATE: Apr 16, 2016
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