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MAGA is already rewiring American education – The Economist
The Department of Education is being dismantled; universities are being brought to heel WHEN AMERICAN presidents announce education policies, they are inevitably flanked by a phalanx of pupils. The executive order signed by President Donald Trump on March 20th was no exception—the children even held up their own mock executive orders after practising their…
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The everyday miracle of writing | The Economist
Give thanks to the people who resolved to make pictures stand for sounds By Johnson, columnist, Economist, June 30, 2022 If you are reading this column, a combination of 26 squiggles on a page or screen is putting the sounds and meaning of this sentence into your head almost without effort on your part, though…
