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At the Ragged School
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I found my first Ragged School, in an obscure place called West-Street, Saffron-Hill, pitifully struggling for life, under every disadvantage. If I say it is ten years ago, I leave…

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Abolish High School
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Ididn’t go to high school. This I think of as one of my proudest accomplishments and one of my greatest escapes, because everyone who grows up in the United States…

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On Maleness and Deep Springs College
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An alumnus reflects on the possibility of female students at Deep Springs

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William Deresiewicz on Excellent Sheep
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William Deresiewicz discusses the miseducation of the American elite

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The Many Faces of Boko
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Against a current of extremist violence, Northern Nigeria struggles to modernise Koranic schools

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A Just Decision in Kansas
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The state Supreme Court tells Kansas legislators to restore funding for education. Will they comply?

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Cutting School in Kansas
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The state Supreme Court prepares to decide the fate of Kansas public-school funding

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Course Corrections
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To the long list of American institutions that have withered since the dawn of the 1980s—?journalism, organized labor, mainline Protestantism, small-town merchants—?it may be time to add another: college-level humanities.…

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Othello’s Son
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A racial education

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Beyond the Book
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By Mark Kingwell, from a keynote speech delivered in May at the annual meeting of the Writers’ Union of Canada and published in the Ottawa Citizen. Kingwell is a professor…

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Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America
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Imagining a renewed role for poetry in the national discourse — and a new canon

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