The Tragic Lack of Readers

Upon the invention of the World Wide Web in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee,the internet has made its way into the orthodoxy of everyday life. Neverbefore has history seen such a rapid advance

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QA With New Teachers at LHS

Joseph Williams:What’s your childhood story? It’s a pretty straightforward story.  I was the oldest of six boys.  My Dad was a Newton native and my Mom was an immigrant from Jamaica (Chinese

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The Hollow Promise of Socialism

In 1989, the concrete barrier that ideologically and physically divided Berlin, and thus Germany, finally collapsed as part of a wave of anti-tyrannical sentiment across Eastern Europe. The communist sectarianism established in

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Is School At Blame For Stress?

In 2019, The Pew Research Center surveyed that 70% of teenagers say that anxiety and depression are a major problem among peers in their community. “I think that [school and increased stress]

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