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Political Research Associates
The following is a summary of my portion of a panel titled “Beyond Bullying: Equally Excellent Education for All?”
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Political Research Associates
Intensive Mothering
Mothers overwhelmingly bear the burden of the “immense emotional, temporal, and physical workloads required to homeschool,” Lois explains. This, she devotes her ethnography to these mothers, bypassing the more commonly researched homeschooled students.
Book Review
Religion Dispatches
A mild-mannered schoolteacher doubles as an education-defending Muslim heroine.
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Political Research Associates
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) is a conservative youth activism organization that offers college students across the United States a variety of outlets for promoting Right-Wing ideology.
Profile on the Right
Political Research Associates
It looks like the Lone Star State’s reputation as a hotbed of anti-science fanaticism is about to be reinforced. At least six creationists/”intelligent design” proponents succeeded in getting invited to review high school biology textbooks that publishers have submitted for adoption in Texas this year.
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Religion Dispatches
Graduation time—and the living ain’t easy.
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Religion Dispatches
This book is my own effort to equip myself to talk about and engage with the nation’s fastest growing religion, to offer a snapshot of one of its most influential institutions, and to tell the stories of the students and scholars who have taken up the challenge of this experiment in American education.
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Political Research Associates
Across college campuses last week, students were faced with a full-page ad promoting “Islamic Apartheid Week”. Funded and placed by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, it appeared during the annual “Israeli Apartheid Week” organized by pro-Palestinian groups on many of the same campuses.
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Religion Dispatches
When is touching your toes just touching your toes, and when is it an effort to indoctrinate small children in Hinduism?
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