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Stanford is searching for a new president — a job more political and scrutinized than ever before
Sunday, January 7th, 2024
via San Francisco Chronicle (California)Stanford University searches for a new president as the role becomes more scrutinized after the departures of Harvard and Penn leaders.
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Lollipop concert, ‘Portrait of Aretha’ and garden planning: Things to do in January 2024
Saturday, January 6th, 2024
via The Virginian-Pilot (Virginia)Lollipop concert, ‘Portrait of Aretha' and garden planning: Things to do in January 2024
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COLUMNIST: Nikki Haley is the GOP’s best hope
Saturday, January 6th, 2024
via Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Arkansas)Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, represents the Republican Party's best hope to vanquish Donald Trump. While many foes and pundits have piled on Haley for her…
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December 27, 2023 CALL TO ORDER Chairper
Saturday, January 6th, 2024
via Mitchell Republic (South Dakota)December 27, 2023 CALL TO ORDER Chairperson Reider called the regular meeting of the Davison County Board of Commissioners to order at 9:00 a.m. All members of the Board were present. Also present was…
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Jim Kenyon: Windsor’s Hudson Ranney goes to Washington
Saturday, January 6th, 2024
via Valley News (Vermont)When I met 16-year-old Hudson Ranney at the Boston Dreams coffee shop in Windsor, it was 10 in the morning and he was munching on a Moose Tracks ice cream cone while checking messages on his Apple…
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Sultan: Francis Howell students could teach their school board an important lesson
Friday, January 5th, 2024
via St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)Students in the Francis Howell district could drive home the Streisand effect by signing up en masse for the Black history and literature classes when they are offered again.
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‘Excessive celebration’ and the fall of Claudine Gay
Friday, January 5th, 2024
via Deseret News (Utah)After Harvard's president resigned, Christopher Rufo listed three ways to wage a successful campaign. But humility matters, too.
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Review: Guthrie’s entertaining ‘Art’ punches hard into men’s feelings
Thursday, January 4th, 2024
via Star Tribune (Minnesota)Yasmina Reza's 1994 play gets a taut and timely staging in Minneapolis.
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For Harvard’s First Black President, Race Became the Unavoidable Issue
Thursday, January 4th, 2024
via The New York Times (New York)Claudine Gay celebrated her history making appointment. But after she resigned, she spoke very differently about her experience.
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Chris Doyle: A discomforting anniversary and teaching the Capitol riot in 2024
Thursday, January 4th, 2024
via Hartford Courant (Connecticut)Students deserve to be shown how recent history contributes to ongoing events
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Boy, 13, Is Believed to Be the First to ‘Beat’ Tetris
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024
via The New York Times (Ohio)Willis Gibson, a competitive Tetris player prodigy from Oklahoma, advanced so far in the original Nintendo version of the game that it froze. 'I can't feel my fingers,' he said afterward.
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Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimony
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
via Winston-Salem Journal (North Carolina)Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on…
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A ‘pocket of hope’: This California school district made a difference on Black students’ scores
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
via CalMatters (California)Teacher pay, creative writing, tutoring and attendance monitors helped a California school district improve test scores for Black students.
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Utah diversity, equity, inclusion: Gov. Spencer Cox’s DEI statements
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
via The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah)Gov. Spencer Cox has championed his diversity and equity efforts in the past, but has more recently asserted such initiatives foster divisiveness instead of inclusivity.
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What changed after a California school district banned teaching critical race theory?
Monday, January 1st, 2024
via Delaware Public Media (Delaware)More than a year after a Southern California school district banned the teaching of critical race theory, some Temecula Valley Unified students say it's resulted in more racism.
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Haley mixes up name of Iowa’s Caitlin Clark during Coralville stop
Sunday, December 31st, 2023
via Quad-City Times (Iowa)GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley also attended an Iowa women's basketball game on Saturday.
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The 24 figures we’ll be watching in 2024
Sunday, December 31st, 2023
via Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia)Who else should be on the list? Join the conversation and tell us at go.richmond.com/24in24.
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Haley flubs name of Iowa Hawkeyes star Caitlin Clark
Saturday, December 30th, 2023
via The Gazette (Iowa)In campaign stop, she touts foreign policy experience and economic plan.
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Led by Trump, GOP candidates take polarizing stances on race and history
Saturday, December 30th, 2023
via The Washington Post (South Carolina)The Republican Party's three leading presidential candidates are speaking about history and race in polarizing and provocative ways that sometimes diverge from or distort the facts, some political strategists, experts and civil rights leaders said.
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