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After lights out, the girl is knitting.

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Students don’t know what’s best for their own learning

Many educators worry that students are more positive about teachers who give better marks regardless of what the students learn, and are more negative about teachers who make students work hard in order to learn. If this is true, it means the simplest way for a teacher to get a good evaluation is to make…

Smith College Protesters Bar Journalists From Covering Sit-In Unless They Support the Cause

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Actors too reverent with Shakespeare, says Mark Rylance

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I worked in a video store for 25 years. Here’s what I learned as my industry died.

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Why Is Othello Black?

To us today, the word “black” carries with it a specific cluster of associations informed by history, culture, stereotypes, and literature. Othello may have started in conversation with Shakespeare’s definition of blackness, but today, he speaks with ours. A much more interesting question, really, is: Why is Othello black? Why did Shakespeare write a domestic…

Sparkle unicorn "Winston" lends ethos to a presentation on moral agency on animals.

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