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The Case for Project-Based Learning

8 Green Jobs for Budding Environmentalists

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Let’s Talk About "Let’s Talk Elections"

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Illustration of the mars helicopter ingenuity flying in a very red martian atmosphere while the mars rover perseverance sits parked in the background

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Interview

Mars-copters, Author Prophets, and Free Speech Zones

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An empty classroom in darkness with an American flag seen in the foreground

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News

Averting a "Lost Generation" of Students

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Interview

A Trailblazing Astronaut’s Ongoing Mission

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Young black female high school student wearing a mask while sitting in a classroom

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Interview

Ensuring Education Blooms in the Magnolia State

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A teacher gives thumbs up to the remote learning students she's looking at on a laptop while three students sitting in her classroom, wearing masks, look on

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Interview

Getting Students Connected—and Keeping Them Connected

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AP Art of the Week

Spotlight on Artist Endryval Camba

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photograph of a metal sculpture in the shape of a pyramid

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AP Art of the Week

Spotlight on Artist Anthony Palombit

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Illustration of a woman in a white dress and shoes, seen from below the calf, walking away while carrying purple and orange shopping bags

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AP Art of the Week

Spotlight on Artist Audrey Paransky

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the cover of the book pencils you should know on a lavendar background surrounded by pencils in different colors

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Interview

Sharpening Our Pencil History, From Yellow to No. 2

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the cover of why did i get a b against a dusty green chalkboard

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Interview

Teachers Aren’t Supposed to Talk Like That—Are They?

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From the Archive

A Conversation with Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti

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black and white image of a soldier in vietnam

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From the Archive

Vietnam Veterans in Higher Education

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A column, tilted to the right, with the words higher education affordability written above it

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From the Archive

Will It be the Health-Care Issue of the 21st Century?

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