This Day in History 4/19: The “Shot Heard ‘Round the World”
On April 19, 1775, a group of Massachusetts militiamen converged on the village common of Lexington. Approaching was a British column heading to Concord to seize the arms and munitions stored there....
View ArticleThis Day in History 12/16: The Boston Tea Party
Image via Wikipedia Today’s story is not about 342 chests of tea dumped into a harbor. It is not about Sons of Liberty, Samuel Adams or John Hancock. It is not about Committees of Correspondence,...
View ArticleThe Teacher “Bar” Exam is no solution to teacher quality
The Sad truth about Education programs in the US (Photo credit: brewbooks) When a cat and a dog start howling at the moon together, something is terribly wrong. With Randi Weingarten and Arne Duncan...
View ArticleThis Day in History 3/11: The Great Blizzard of 1888
Now that spring is coming soon, it might serve as a reminder that the end of winter can be just as turbulent as the rest of the season. March 11, 1888, was shaping up to be another unseasonably warm...
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