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Childhood Vaccination Rates Are Falling. Here’s How States Can Raise Them.
Twenty-three years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that measles had been eliminated in the United States.…
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Former Juilliard Chair Goes on Leave Amid Sexual Misconduct Investigation
An outside law firm is looking into claims against Robert Beaser, a professor who led the composition department for 25…
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At a holiday celebration in southern Ukraine, ‘kids still need miracles.’
A woman and her daughter walking past holiday decorations with food aid and presents.Credit...David Guttenfelder for The New York TimesHundreds…
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In Public Schools, the N.R.A. Gets a Boost From Junior R.O.T.C.
Instructors in military-sponsored J.R.O.T.C. classes have offered to promote the N.R.A. in high schools in exchange for money for their…
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A.I. Will Change Education. Don’t Let It Worsen Inequality.
Plato mourned the invention of the alphabet, worried that the use of text would threaten traditional memory-based arts of rhetoric.…
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A Sign That Tuition Is Too High: Some Colleges Are Hacking It in Half
Colby-Sawyer in New Hampshire has reduced its tuition to $17,500 a year, from about $46,000. But the cut is also…
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Why Some Hasidic Children Can’t Leave Failing Schools
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The World Keeps Spinning, but the Astor Place Cube Is Stuck in Place
The 55-year-old sculpture doesn’t move the way it used to. Those who love it want it to be fixed quickly.
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Thousands of Teens Are Being Pushed Into Military’s Junior R.O.T.C.
In high schools across the country, students are being placed in military classes without electing them on their own. “The…
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Netanyahu’s New Government Roils Israel Before It’s Even Formed
Efforts by Benjamin Netanyahu to appease his extremist coalition partners have been met with a backlash from Israeli liberals.