I stop the car by the open field and Cody jumps from the backseat. The beat-up retractable leash gives him 18 feet of roaming freedom. Cody, ¾ Lab and ¼ terrier is ultra-submissive. I can’t take him to the off–leash dog park because other dogs sense his fear and almost get in line to hump […]
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This essay is dedicated to all the teachers, parents and students, who face one of the biggest challenges in our country’s history as this school year begins. Not since the polio epidemic of the 1950s and the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, have we had a more dire situation regarding the health and welfare of
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Did you ever notice as you get older that you are turning into your parent? Surprising things come out of your mouth that only they would have said? Even if the mirror doesn’t reflect it, I am turning into my dad. Genes and DNA account for some of it. I have his short body build
When I began my career as a first-grade teacher, writing in the first grade meant handwriting. But change was in the air. Led by Donald Graves, education professor from the University of New Hampshire, and many others, composition was beginning earlier, moving to the primary grades. I loved it. Growing up in a small town
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As flashbulbs pop to record the formal signing of the Takings Act of 1949, tribal chairman George Gillette chokes back his emotions as Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug signs the bill that would flood the ancestral home of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara people. (AP/Worldwide photos) The Senate vote was close, 51-40, but
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This question has taken on a controversial aspect, but not so when my husband and I asked it before the birth of our first child. I am white and he was Black, so we were just kind of wondering. Let me take you back a few years to the maternity ward a couple days after
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