Andrew Bauld

The Great Grocery Squeeze How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert

The federal government used to require suppliers to offer similar prices to giant national retailers and independent grocers alike. Then it stopped enforcing the law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

STUDENT VOICE: My generation knows less about civics than my parents’ generation did, yet we need it more than ever - The Hechinger Report Many adults, as well as the vast majority of my high school-age peers, don’t seem to understand how government works and as a result don’t trust it. We as a nation have to prioritize civics education...

STUDENT VOICE: We as a nation have to prioritize civics education in schools to encourage civic engagement, empathy and critical thinking to sustain our constitutional democracy.

Do consumer protection laws apply to literacy instruction? This lawsuit says yes. Two Massachusetts families say Lucy Calkins, other literacy specialists, and their publisher willfully ignored heaps of research that their methods for teaching reading were shoddy, then charging for updates. They want unspecified damages for the harm they say was done to their children.

Lawsuit accuses famous literacy specialists of deceptive marketing
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2024/12/04/lawsuit-accuses-reading-curriculum-and-literacy-specialists-of-deception/

Opinion | Want to save your friendships? Take a page from the Founding Fathers. Adams and Jefferson put politics aside and rescued their relationship. We should do the same.

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