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A History Lesson in the AP Test Controversy Wilfred M. McClay
Category: National Affairs Published: September 2015
"The sudden passion to cleanse the American landscape of any and all allusions to the Confederacy or slaveholding...suggests the emergence of a public that is losing meaningful contact with its own history."
 
Beyond Political Correctness Nigel Dessau
Category: Business & Finance Published: September 2015
"Even carefully considering who should conduct interviews for specific positions can help to increase diversity."
 
Brides of ISIS Anne Speckhard
Category: Worldview Published: September 2015
"What started as small drips from many places has increased to a steady stream of young women disappreaing from their homes and and families to show up later as terrorist cadres."
 
Dealing with Demons Carol Hebald
Category: Psychology Published: September 2015
"The writer is an inspector of the spirit. To present precisely from within the motivating factors in a character with whom readetrs can identify educates the sentiments."
 
Every Life Matters Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2015
"…Advocates of the Black Lives Matter movement are the ideological equivalents of white supremacists. Each subscribes to the ideology of race-based nationalism, an ideology uterly antithetical to freedom and justice."
 
Founding Fathers "Find" Religion
Category: Religion Published: September 2015
The exhibit "Religious Liberty and the Founding of America" cioncides with the visits of Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama.
 
Hail to the Chief? Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2015
"Critics [have] accused Obama of 'sermonizing, not strategizing,' and of having 'style, not a doctrine.' The Admininstration's euphemisms attest to downplaying violence: 'man-caused disaster' for terrorism; 'workplace violence for the Ft. Hood killings…"
 
Head Start or False Start? David J. Armor
Category: Education Published: September 2015
"…Existing research on preschool programs does not paint a uniformly positive picture…Indeed, the most rigorous studies of contemporary preschool programs, show no lasting gains for oreschool studeents after they enter regular grades."
 
How Folk Music History Came to Be "Blowin' in the Wind"
Category: USA Yesterday Published: September 2015
The exhibition examines, among other things, "the boom years in the late 1950s to the mid 1960s, when the Greenwich Village was the focal point of the revival and culture due to the concentration of performance venues."
 
Mayhem in the Middle East Christina Pazzanese
Category: Worldview Published: September 2015
"…You would have to go back to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I; the creation of the modern Middle East;the introduction of the League of Nations' mandates for Palestine; to find another time that was so turbulent."
 
Must It Be Green Lanws vs. Green Vegetables? Emily Rooney
Category: Ecology Published: September 2015
"Like everyone in California, farmers and dairymen are struggling to get by with as little water as possible."
 
No One is Safe Alan Berman
Category: Cyber Security Published: September 2015
"The nation needs to create an environment that will foster the open exhchange of information and subject matter expertise to combat the damaging acts of cyber terrorism."
 
School Morning Madness Ivana Cortes
Category: Education Published: September 2015
"From spilled milk to argumentative siblings to lost homework to road construction, there is so much that can make you crazy before 8 a.m. rolls around."
 
Slow Down to Get Around Sharon H. Kneiss
Category: Life in America Published: September 2015
"While our drivers are taking every possible precaution to avoid accidents, communities need to do their part and practice common sense when sharing the road with sanitation trucks."
 
The Cure to Improve and Protect Health Care Records Scott Bagwell
Category: Medicine & Health Published: September 2015
"Priorities are the same across industries--minimize risks and cut costs while making systems and processes function better. Just as the financial industry had to adjust to a move to electronic transactions, so, too, does the health care industry."
 
The Doctor Is in…on Your Computer Simon Lester
Category: Medicina & Health Published: September 2015
"Instead of resisting, governments actively should be promoting cross-border trade in medical services through negotiations, along with mutual recognition agreements to make sure that telemedicine care is available to the widest extent possible."
 
The Fairness Doctrine Was Anything but Nat Hentoff
Category: Mass Media Published: September 2015
"…James Madison did not have bifurcation of free speech in mind when he submitted his draft of the First Amendment."
 
The Nobility of Teaching Caroline Alexander Lewis
Category: Education Published: September 2015
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
 
The Pope Sounds Off on Economics and the Environment Gerald E. Mason
Category: Religion Published: September 2015
"…Economic powers continue to justify the current global system where priority tends to be given to speculation and the pursuit of finanical gain, which fail to take the context into account, let alone the effects on human dignity and the environment."
 
The Shackles of Free Safety Czonko Bezrski Jr.
Category: Athletic Arena Published: September 2015
"…With barely a minute left, Coach suddenly was ready to play me--on defense? Spitting and spewing, he yelled for me to line up deep middle and 'Don't let anyone get past you!' "
 
There Are Better Ways for NSA to Root Out Terrorists Elliot D. Cohen
Category: National Affairs Published: September 2015
"The question of justifying the existence and use ofo such technology is whether the expedience of gaining access to information more quickly is worth the investment of billions of dollars and the cost to human privacy."
 
Voting Season Ventures Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2015
"Those who are opposed to all negatism in political campaigning either yearn for insipidity or advantage, but not the rightfully vaunted marketplace of ideas to determine the best candidates."