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EDUCATION
Reading’s Falling From Favor
The number of Americans who haven’t read a single book in the previous year has tripled since 1978. Intellectual Armageddon, or enlightenment redefined for the digital age?
PROFILE
Badass Teacher Mark Naison
Mark Naison posseses the soul of a warrior. A professor of African-American Studies and History at Fordham University in the Bronx and a member of the Fordham faculty since 1970, he was a civil rights activist in the 1960s and was once a controversial enough figure to have his house bugged by the FBI.
EDUCATION
Listen to the Teacher
The No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law in January 2002, put U.S. public schools on the road to what many educators characterize as a gross overreliance on testing “technology,”...