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Will the Tea Get Cold?
Sam Tanenhaus
Today’s conservatives embrace movement rhetoric but not movement ideology
Work, Not Sex, At Last
Elaine Blair
Michel Houellebecq’s new book actually gives sex the diminished place that it deserves, according to the novelist's own logic
Schools We Can Envy
Diane Ravitch
To an American observer, the most remarkable fact about Finnish education is that students do not take any standardized tests until the end of high school. They do take tests, but the tests are drawn up by their own teachers, not by a multinational testing corporation. The Finnish nine-year comprehensive school is a “standardized testing-free zone,” where children are encouraged “to know, to create, and to sustain natural curiosity.”
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