Month: September 2014
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The Political Lens: What Global Warming and Wright v. New York Have in Common
During the 2003-2004 school year, my chemistry teacher told my class that global warming wasn’t occurring. I believed her. When I attended New Jersey’s Governor’s School of International Studies in the summer of 2005, a professor told me the opposite – the evidence for global warming, and for the human…
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The 34justice Political Tool: Ethics, Truth, and a Case Study of Michael Brown and Ferguson
Seating arrangements during the French Revolution gave us the Left-Right political spectrum. During the first National Assembly in 1789, the king’s supporters sat on the right and proponents of revolution on the left. In contemporary American politics, we often consider liberals, who “believe in government action to achieve equal opportunity…
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On Education and Poverty, and How We Talk About Them (Part 3b)
StudentsFirst Vice President Eric Lerum and I recently began a debate about approaches to teacher evaluation. During Part 2 of that debate, the conversation touched on the relationship between anti-poverty work and education reform. We resume that conversation below. Here were the relevant parts of our original exchange, in case…
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