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… Kentucky school, 1946 Common Core is a set of voluntary standards in the United States for the public education system … that detail what children should learn in mathematics and language arts. The curriculum guidelines were released … for national survival against both a rising Asia (think South Korea) and an established Northern Europe (think …

… On February 15, 2014, NFL star Ray Rice and Janay Palmer, who were then engaged, were both arrested … In late July 2014, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell also handed Rice a two game suspension. Many felt that the … with domestic matters focused on poor, immigrant, or African American households. They blamed individual failings …

… the Second World War often include indelible scenes, moods, and sounds. As we move further and further away from the actual events of the war, movies … a French-Algerian filmmaker, tells the story of North African colonial troops, the discrimination they faced, and …

… to sit on a bench in front of the Swedish Parliament, handing out flyers that read, "I am doing this because you … by prominent scientists, environmental policy makers, and a growing cadre of climate activists, Thunberg has … along the scenic beaches of an upscale resort town in Southern California. On January 28, 1969, a Union Oil well …

… is often rooted in romanticized notions of ancient Greece and Rome, which alt-right groups have appropriated and promoted in recent propaganda. Why and how do … fascination with, especially Sparta, but also the American South, post reconstruction, sort of like the daughters and …

… more than 80 million forcibly displaced people in the world and another 260-plus million international migrants, humans … today seem to be on the move. Debates over immigration and refugee policy in the U.S., Europe, and across the world … rhetoric, you know, there'd be people who were very recent South Asian immigrants, or very recent Arab immigrants, who …

… map of Europe disintegrated, often with little resistance. And the Berlin Wall—that most iconic symbol of the Cold … tumbling down in November. The sense of possibility and astonishment were palpable: the world could change in … Lithuania, and Estonia, in particular, but also in the south of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and other areas where …

… In the aftermath, a myriad of political, economic, social, and cultural changes reshaped life inside Russia as the … anniversary of the Russian Revolutions, hosts Brenna Miller and Jessica Viñas-Nelson interview expert guests Drs. Angela … now that the Republic of Georgia and that in the Caucasus, south of the Caucuses, so that there were so many different …

… spending spree on America’s highways, railways, waterways and harbors, and airlines, expenditures dropped precipitously and … districts. Much of the increased population occurred in the South and West, which had already been growing because of …

… security contractor Edward Snowden to the Washington Post and the Guardian this past summer. It was made instead in … it held hearings on the activities of the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA. Domestic surveillance intended to protect … Indian Movement. Hoover had long been suspicious of African Americans, having investigated W.E.B. DuBois in his …

… Language and Politics Is it a death tax or an estate tax? Are they … use also become a part of the world we are trying to understand. One cannot understand contemporary American politics … of Western Christendom, like the history of India or Africa, simply illustrates one of a number of the different …

… years of out-of-state graduate education was expensive, and student loans were his only option to fund it. The bill … my friends. Around 18 million people were enrolled in two- and four-year degree and non-degree granting institutions in … 8% of borrowers' gross monthly income. In addition, 55% of African-American student borrowers and 58% of Hispanic …

… theories have proliferated in both the United States and Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In … Russian media depicted the election protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg (and throughout the country) in December … a different story, for they are marked “Thailand” and “South Vietnam.” While depicting this rapacious appetite as …

… takes us to late imperial China, colonial Mexico, and turn-of-the-century California. Ultimately, a international perspective helps us to understand why the world was ripe was a U.S.-led War on Drugs in … heard this narrative for years from none other than their southern neighbors in Mexico, thanks largely to the …

… had imagined for Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey—and Europe. It would be ambitious. Massive. It would be a "crazy project," as Erdogan and the public coined it. Turks imagined : Could it be a … pipeline from Azerbaijan to a Mediterranean port in southern Turkey. Another oil pipeline, scheduled for …

… in Ukraine. Panelists: David L. Hoffmann, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, Department of History, … Breyfogle (Moderator), Associate Professor of History and Director, Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching, … know the answer, in the case of Central Asian countries, or South Caucasus countries, either. Certainly, it is …

… witch trials concern those who were accused of witchcraft and their accusers, Matt Goldish's new book, "Science and Specters" at Salem, turns the spotlight on the judges. … they will get further names. And that's why especially in southwestern Germany late 16th early 17th centuries you get …

… in Chemistry for his discovery of plutonium, visited Richland, Washington, and the adjacent Hanford Nuclear Reservation to give a … in 2009 with completion scheduled for 2016 and 2017. In South Carolina, plans for two new reactors at the Virgil C. …

… spoke about his company's plans for interplanetary travel and his belief in humanity's future as a multi-planet species . His proposed first stop: Mars—sooner and cheaper than might be expected. In front of the … owns and operates a Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in southern Utah. The University of Hawaii at Manoa operates …

… Vladimir Putin, the widely popular President since 2000 and Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 2007, has come to the end of his legal term limit and must step down. He has anointed his successor in Dmitry … the question of the secessionist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In this context, both this year's great May 9 …

… the North Pole, Artur Chilingarov, famed polar explorer and member of the Russian parliament, straightened his arm into the air, fired his pistol, and declared: "This is our Arctic, this is the Russian … change the rules of the game. The European Union, certain African countries, and others have argued that the Arctic is …