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Is Earth Becoming Purgatory or Hell?

March 20th, 2013

By Dan Miller Or is it already one or the other? I don’t know the answer, but the question is a basis for this article. I am not a student of religion and know little of Roman Catholic doctrine concerning Purgatory and Hell. Nor, as best I can remember, have I ever stayed at a […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: America, culture, foreign policy, hell, Israel, purgatory, students, theology
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Environmental Writing 2012

May 24th, 2012

By Jan Barry Are electric cars the wave of the future? Why are bomb squads frequent visitors to a New Jersey business park? What’s up with both solar panels and natural gas pipelines spreading across the Garden State landscape? These are just some of the timely and essential ecological issues that 15 student-reporters at Ramapo […]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: environment, issues, Ramapo College, reporting, students, writing
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Testing in Schools Isn’t Working

July 8th, 2011

By Dr. Jim Taylor Testing has become the end-all, be-all of the public education reform movement. The idea seems quite sensible, that holding students (and teachers) to certain objective standards incentivizes both of these stakeholders to work harder and achieve their goals. It also seems reasonable to use the results of those tests as measures […]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: education, failure, NCLB, reform, schools, students, teachers, testing
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How To Teach Students to Cheat

July 7th, 2011

By Dan Miller This article reports that there’s something rotten in Atlanta: Award-winning gains by Atlanta students were based on widespread cheating by 178 named teachers and principals, said Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Tuesday. His office released a report from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that names 178 teachers and principals – 82 of […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: bonuses, cheating, CRCT, NCLB, rewards, students, teachers, tests
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Environmental Writing 2011

May 27th, 2011

By Jan Barry From Agent Orange’s insidious grasp out of the past of the war in Vietnam to current health concerns of many residents of Ramapo River communities, to the potential future effects of global climate change, 11 student-reporters at Ramapo College of New Jersey dug into a wide array of ecological issues in the […]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: Agent Orange, climate change, Earth, environment, projects, students
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