TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachers & healers, TEACHERS, teachers The Attic 1/29/26 TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachers & healers, TEACHERS, teachers The Attic 1/29/26

SCULPTING SILENCE -- THE ASL STORY

How American Sign Language came out of a small town to speak volumes and change lives.

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MILLION, BILLION -- WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?

Decades ago, John Allen Paulos described the consequences of “innumeracy.” We failed that test. Now what?

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THE ARTIST AND THE REDNECK

Divided by politics, by Jim Crow, brothers Barry and Tommy Moser rarely spoke, until. . .

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DEMOCRACY -- THE NEXT GENERATION

In a nation where half the citizens don’t vote, who cares about civics? Kelley Brown and her students, that’s who.

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TEACHERS, teachers & healers, TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachers The Attic 6/21/24 TEACHERS, teachers & healers, TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachers The Attic 6/21/24

THE JEWEL OF THE SUMMER -- FREEDOM SCHOOLS

In a savage and sizzling summer, Mississippi’s Freedom Schools were beacons of hope.

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TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachers & healers, TEACHERS, teachers The Attic 2/28/24 TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachers & healers, TEACHERS, teachers The Attic 2/28/24

A MIND FOR THE MASSES

Martin Gardner was interested in everything and made everything interesting.

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TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachers & healers, DREAMERS The Attic 7/6/22 TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachers & healers, DREAMERS The Attic 7/6/22

THE WOMAN WHO SAVED THE COMMONS

The commons was doomed, economists said. Elinor Ostrom disagreed and won a Nobel.

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WHO IS AMERICA'S GREATEST THINKER?

Think the Midwest is just corn country? The annual Great American Think-off will make you think again.

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LIFE AND LIFE SENTENCES

When Will Durant asked the wise about “the meaning of life,” he got the usual answers. Then he asked a prisoner.

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WATCHING US WATCH TV

Others saw TV as mindless, but George Gerbner saw it as mean. And he had the data to prove it.

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