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Advancing Learning and Democracy: October 2014
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Advancing Learning and Democracy. This blog is dedicated to sharing ideas and resources that can advance learning and democracy in the United States and elsewhere. Tuesday, October 7, 2014. Principles of journalism must cross all platforms, from sitcoms to news reports. Are “facts” accurate, credible, verifiable, contextually appropriate, and unbiased? Whether the purveyor is a talking head or a comic character, how is “truth” situated? And Arts in View ( http:/ artsinview.blogspot.com. An e-book of essa...
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Advancing Learning and Democracy: March 2015
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Advancing Learning and Democracy. This blog is dedicated to sharing ideas and resources that can advance learning and democracy in the United States and elsewhere. Sunday, March 29, 2015. It’s hard to call oneself a Christian when so many who flaunt that label behave in such unChrist-like ways. Too often Christian. Is synonymous today with racist. In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times. 8220;How Business Made Us Christian,” March 15, 2015), Princeton history professor Kevin M. Kruse tr...In the ...
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Advancing Learning and Democracy: January 2015
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Advancing Learning and Democracy. This blog is dedicated to sharing ideas and resources that can advance learning and democracy in the United States and elsewhere. Thursday, January 8, 2015. The murderous terrorist attack on the French satirical newspaper. In a free society freedom of expression is a value of considerable worth. Such freedom should not be merely tolerated but prized. But even criticism must be grounded in truth. Satire, such as the Charlie Hebdo. Cartoons, points up untruths and misinfor...
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Advancing Learning and Democracy: February 2015
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Advancing Learning and Democracy. This blog is dedicated to sharing ideas and resources that can advance learning and democracy in the United States and elsewhere. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Posttraumatic Test Disorder: A New Disability? Increasingly, worried and angry parents are demanding an end to the overuse and misuse of standardized tests because toxic test anxiety is traumatizing their children. Such abuse needs to stop before PTTD becomes an actual disability designation. Quoted in Edelstein, D&#...