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“Kids Today”: Perpetually Dumb and Lazy as a Box of Rocks
Ways College Students Struggle as Writers and How to Better Prepare Them
Why Education Reformers Have to Lie About the Left
What’s Missing in the “Science of” Education Reform Movements? Often, the Science
Poem: someone died today
Myrtle Wilson as MAGA Allegory
Misreading What’s Wrong with College: Social Media Edition
Science of Reading or Science of Retention?: Why Miracles Fail Reading Reform
Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It
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