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Eleanor J. Bader

In this Jan. 19, 2017 photo 28-year-old Talal Mando, left, a refugee from Homs, works with writer Mohanad Al-Naheel on his website arabalmanya.com in Berlin, Germany. The website with information and news for recently arrived migrants to Germany has hit one million visitors.(AP Photo/Jona Kallgren) (AP)

Online schooling is highlighting the inequality in our classrooms

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Corporal punishment lives on: Students nationwide are being paddled, restrained

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Why depression is rampant in our times

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Increasing numbers of parents are choosing to “unschool” their kids

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Former White Supremacist leader — here’s how to stop hate groups from spreading

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She’s a trainwreck: new book speculates about the human propensity for trash talk

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A new autism theory

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