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How to Clean Silver Jewelry So It Shines

To make your silver rings, bracelets, and necklaces sparkle, here's how to clean silver jewelry the right way. Plus, how to store silver jewelry to prevent tarnish.

How to Avoid Dining at a Tourist Trap

How to Carry Concealed In a Purse (If You Must)

Many self-defense experts eschew off-body carry. But that's not always practical.

Why Fertility Treatments Aren’t Covered for Veterans

The U.S. government will help active-duty soldiers with the cost of IVF, but those who have left the military don’t have the same benefit—even when combat injuries make it impossible to have kids otherwise.

10 Things Food Banks Need But Won't Ask For

Some items are in high demand at the food bank and you may not realize it. Because they aren't essentials, the staff doesn't publicly ask for them.

How Police Are Watching You on Social Media

How does law enforcement use Twitter, Facebook, and other forms of social media to keep tabs on people? Documents from Chicago's Cook County Sheriff’s Office reveal a few of their surveillance techniques.

WHITEKER: Farewell to public education system

I must acknowledge and give credit to those legislators that have stayed the course in their journey to dismantle public education. They have promoted a perception that schools are failing — therefore, privatizing education via vouchers, tax credit scholarships will save our children. School choice is the answer!

Spending more on public education is well worth it

Spending more on public education increases the odds of poor children attending school longer and making higher wages in the long run.

The 5 Worst States for Public Education In the Nation

Back to school is around the corner. Where does your state rank for public education?

Why Inequity Is The Biggest Issue In Public Education

What are the biggest problems with public education tod...

Should we even have public education?

Will Public Education Survive?

Some of us are not built to be self-promoters or leaders of movements but these are essential for educational leaders now.

What to Do: Policy Recommendations for K-12 Education, on what it means for state boards to...

Chartering fundamentally differs from the district-based model of public education. ESSA may be the perfect opportunity to develop a two-track approach.

Can big data prove its worth to the fire service?

Tight budgets are as challenging for the fire services as they are for any other branch of the public sector so how can big data needs to prove its worth.

Want to Transform Public Education? Act Locally

Sure, schools need strong leadership and supported teachers, but what really makes a school work is plenty of parental and community involvement.

Is it really taboo? Why including theology in public education makes sense

The deeper problem concerns the absence of theology and the functional denial of the transcendent within public school education

Why There's A Renewed Push To Privatize Public Education

Advocates say school choice gives students a broader range of options when it comes to education. Critics say the programs undermine public schools.

Saving Public Education Isn’t About Idealism, but Survival

If it can happen anywhere, it can happen in California.

Educating patients or blaming them? Public education campaigns on antibiotic resistance

There is a problem in the field of antibiotic stewardship. Bundled in with the worthy attempts to reduce unnecessary prescribing, particularly in primary care, patients are persistently mischaracterised as a [...]More...