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Education in America, pt 1: Mythbusting Monday

Post author By [E] Selena MacIntosh*
Post date Monday, April 4th, 2011
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As we talked about last week, we’re going to be working on an on-going series about education in America. It’s sure to be one of the hot-button topics this election, and there will be a lot of column inches devoted to our education policy. Because this is America, and we love our soundbites and scapegoats, […]

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Mental Illness

Deserving It

It’s probably been a decade since I first became aware that a year can change everything and nothing at all. At the beginning of the decade I began chronicling the changes and stabilities in my life around January 1. It was a habit, a reminder, a pros-and-cons list spanning 365 days of choices. In 2008, […]

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