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There is considerable variance in the productivity of teachers, yet educators have been unable to identify observable characteristics…
This essay is an exploration of the political rise of politician Edward W. Brooke and his impact on the Republican Party and the black…
David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam ask how America can simultaneously be religiously devout, religiously diverse, and religiously…
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“In the tradition of Mark Doty’s Heaven’s Coast comes an original memoir from the acclaimed poet and author about the accident that left…
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“Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the Definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: ‘This is a contemporary book, you bet.’…