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The Human Factor, From Voltaire To Earthquake Volunteers In Turkey

The earthquake in Turkey and Syria teach us about humility in the face of what we can’t control — but we also surprise ourselves in responding to crisis.

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Ideas Society

A Belgian Professor Grades Remote Learning: C+

The pandemic closed classrooms and pushed the education process online. It was a desperate measure for desperate times that avoided the worst, but shouldn’t be the norm.

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Echoes of ’68 As Mexico Again Bears Witness To A Student Massacre

-OpEd- BOGOTA — Mexico bleeds as criminal gangs kill the innocent and not-so-innocent, before the gaze of an impotent — or is it indifferent? — state apparatus. The latest victims were 43 student activists who disappeared in late September and, many believe, were shot dead and cut up by gangsters and policemen collaborating in the […]

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Working-Class Kids Are French Avant-Garde For Classroom Use Of Tablets

A school in the low-income banlieues of Paris has been living in the digital age for three years. Results are starting to show.
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