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Is college worth the ever-increasing cost? From the mouths of politicians and parents alike, the notion that "everyone should go to college" is conventional wisdom in America. Yet half of today's college graduates are unemployed or underemployed. They have little to show for their time in school...

Examines major myths informing American education and explores how educators can better serve students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don’t disadvantage students on the basis of race or income Each year, as the founding headmaster of the Boston Arts...

Imagine being able to achieve the dreams you have using the latest research in psychology, economics and other social sciences. Better yet, don't imagine, tune in, and hear me talk through some of the coolest approaches that you can apply to achieve more, do more, and live less stressed.

In Literature and the New Culture Wars, Deborah Appleman calls for a reacknowledgment of the intellectual and affective work that literature can do, and offers ways to continue to teach troubling texts without doing harm. Rather than banishing challenged texts from our classrooms, she writes, we should be confronting and teaching the controversies they invoke. Her book is a timely and eloquent argument for a reasoned approach to determining what literature still deserves to be read and taught and discussed.

Podcasts at St Thomas High School in Houston, TX. Podcast cover art generated by AI using Adobe Firefly.

Podcasts at St Thomas High School in Houston, TX. Podcast cover art generated by AI using Adobe Firefly.

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