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Tennessee textbook commission hires first staff to prepare for school library book appeals |...
Chattanooga Times Free Press· 19 hours agoTennessee's all-volunteer textbook commission is gearing up to consider new challenges to school...
WTF is AI?
TechCrunch· 15 hours agoThe best way to think of artificial intelligence is as software that approximates human thinking. AI is also called machine learning, and the terms are...
Retired teacher warns of group's effort to 'censor' libraries in Valley schools
Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Texas via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMay 28—Like many residents, a retired schoolteacher is questioning a pastors' group push demanding Rio Grande Valley school districts "summarily" remove books deemed "inappropriate" from their ...
State of Texas: ‘School choice’ plan poised to pass after runoff wins for Abbott-backed candidates
KXAN via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoGov. Greg Abbott is declaring victory in his 18-month-long fight for a school choice initiative that...
Review | A charming look at a reader’s many moods
Washington Post· 3 days agoThe poet, essayist and New York Times poetry columnist Elisa Gabbert is rare in grasping that reading is, in addition to a mental exercise, a movement...
Six non-fiction books you can read in a day
The Economist· 2 days agoResolved to read more? There may be no more rewarding genre than the short book
Texas Education Agency seeks to boost student rigor, help teachers with new class content
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 3 days agoMembers of the public can view the proposed materials and give feedback until Aug. 16 by going to the State Board of Education's website, sboe.texas.gov, and finding the "Instructional Materials ...
Pirates and politicians: what a 300-year-old book about the most notorious buccaneers reveals about...
The Conversation· 4 days agoThe book aimed, according to Johnson, to give “a distinct Relation of every Pyrate who has made any Figure”. Here were all the fabled plunderers of the seas: Blackbeard, Bartholomew ...
Combining Value and Profitability in Small Caps
WealthManagement.com· 5 days agoIs it possible for investors to buy cheap, profitable companies (have their cake) and still earn higher expected returns (eat it too)? In our book, Your...
Grand Poobah of the Antigrandiose | Jonathan Lethem
New York Review of Books· 5 days agoCharles Portis is anomalous, a writer force-fielded in a durable glamour of obscurity and frequently championed for revival—“America’s most remembered...
