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'We're Losing Our Little Boy': One Family's Fight For Their Son's Education

'We're Losing Our Little Boy': One Family's Fight For Their Son's Education

WASHINGTON -- Greg Masucci just wants to hear his little boy say his own name. That's what he tells developme…

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How The Common Core Became Education's Biggest Bogeyman

How The Common Core Became Education's Biggest Bogeyman

Shortly before Thanksgiving, Arne Duncan made a glib remark about the Common Core that quickly blew up. Speak…

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Chasm In The Classroom: Inside The Battle To Close The Achievement Gap

Chasm In The Classroom: Inside The Battle To Close The Achievement Gap

NEW YORK -- Ana Enriquez, 17, did her homework in a rat-infested South Bronx apartment, where she shared a be…

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A Thousand Cuts: Larger Classes Hit Young Children Especially Hard

A Thousand Cuts: Larger Classes Hit Young Children Especially Hard

This article is part of a Huffington Post series on the global impact of austerity -- "A Thousand Cuts" -- fr…

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Teachers In Country's 3rd Largest District Go On Strike

Teachers In Country's 3rd Largest District Go On Strike

On Monday, Chicago's public school students won't have any classes to go to. After weeks of negotiations, May…

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After Strike, Chicago Makes Sense Of Its Schools

After Strike, Chicago Makes Sense Of Its Schools

CHICAGO -- Every Sunday, CEO of Chicago Public Schools Jean-Claude Brizard takes his 2-year-old son to breakf…

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I Wore Cowboy Boots on Air Force Two.

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By Joy Resmovits Verified
| Substack
Your resident rodent journalist controlled what she could: her hair. Clint Ramos can tell how a person smells just by looking at them. As he scrolls the social web, he sometimes watches a woman cooking Velveeta in a crockpot. He can tell that she’s making recipes that probably aren’t nourishing. Still, he trusts her. “I trust not that you’re going to give me a healthy meal, but … that I’m looking at a real human being,” he said.
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A Satire of America’s Gun Debate

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By Sunny Sone Verified, Joy Resmovits Verified
| The Trace Verified
The Trace Guns are one of the most polarizing issues in the United States — and, naturally, there have been many projects with the goal of bridging the divide. I’ve never seen one quite like “Good Guy with a Gun!” before, though. “Good Guy with a Gun!” is a new theatrical concept album that pokes fun at both sides of the gun debate.
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The Data on Gunshot Wound Hospitalizations Among Florida Kids

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By Sunny Sone Verified, Joy Resmovits Verified
| The Trace Verified
The Trace From 2018 to 2024, more than 4,000 children ages 17 or younger were hospitalized for firearm injuries in Florida, hospital billing data obtained from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration shows. That’s a rate of about 1.5 kids hospitalized per day. An exclusive analysis of hospital data by KFF Health News and The Trace found that overwhelmingly, these children come from a tiny number of ZIP codes.
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