Does Language Influence How You See The World?
The language you are introduced to affects the structure of your brain, influences how you see the world and who you are. But what if you speak two languages? Can learning a language rewire your brain?...
View ArticleDiane Ravitch – Why Every Child Should Opt Out of the Standardized Tests
Want to end the obsession with standardized testing? Opt your children out of the state tests. Ignore the threats from state and federal officials. The tests today have taken over too much of the...
View ArticleLaurie Levy – The Cruel and Pointless Push to Get Preschoolers ‘College and...
In case you missed it, April 21 was officially Kindergarten Day. This obscure holiday honors the birth of Friedrich Frobel, who started the first Children’s Garden in Germany in 1837. Of course, life...
View ArticleLouis Proyect – Is America Committing Slow-Motion Suicide? A Look at the...
Lehman and other City University of New York colleges were profiled in an article titled “Dreams Stall as CUNY, New York City’s Engine of Mobility, Sputters” that like so many in the newspaper recently...
View Article64 women to sue in three Japanese courts over health woes from cervical...
A group of lawyers for 64 women who are suffering health problems from cervical cancer vaccines said Tuesday the victims will file damages lawsuits against the government and two drugmakers that...
View ArticleShahien Nasiripour – The Feds Don’t Care If You Dropped Out of College. They...
When it comes to collecting on student loans, the U.S. Department of Education treats college dropouts the same as Ivy League graduates: They just want the money back. New data show the perils of that...
View ArticleLeid Stories—Detroit: The Systematic Destruction of Education; Still Under...
With the summer break ending, school districts all across the country are humming with activity, preparing for a new school year. Not so in Detroit, where the state’s largest school district, still...
View ArticleLOA Today – 11.03.16
Walt and Joel spend this episode talking about the things the appreciate in their own lives, in the hope that our listeners will be inspired to engage in a similar, internal examination to be grateful...
View ArticleBlack Agenda Radio – 03.20.17
Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host, Nellie Bailey. Coming up: It’s been almost 50 years...
View ArticleLeid Stories—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Price of Justice—04.04.17
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a small team of close advisers and organizers had gone to Memphis, Tenn., to help boost support for the city’s black sanitation workers who were out on strike over pay,...
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