Education

Nearly alone among the nation’s elected leaders, President Trump saw a nobility of purpose in the fiery procession that began a weekend of street fights in Charlottesville, Va. White nationalists hoisted tiki torches that recalled the horrifying imagery of the Ku Klux Klan. They revived an old Nazi chant—“Blood and Soil”—which had been silenced in 1945 with American blood

After 38 years in education, Judith Harper thinks what teachers are missing is more time to learn from one another.

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