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San Francisco Schools Are Retiring ‘Chief.’ That’s Not as Frivolous as It Seems.
The San Francisco Unified School District recently announced that it will eliminate the word “chief” from its job titles. As The San Francisco ...
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In the Fight Over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat
For decades, Lucy Calkins has determined how millions of children learn to read. An education professor, she has been a pre-eminent leader of ...
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Magazine
The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word
The City Council of Mariupol, Ukraine, was trying to make a point about mass death. Their city had been hit hardest by the Russian invasion, and ...
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World
When You Hear the F-Word, Try Picking Up More Than One Meaning
People occasionally complain to me that so many today seem to lean on profanity rather than utilizing the other lexical resources at their ...
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World
The New N-Word Standard Isn’t Progress
Over roughly the past two decades, American mores have been settling into an idea that when it comes to the N-word, there’s no difference between ...
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Arts
Oxford’s 2021 Word of the Year Is a Shot in the Arm
By Jennifer Schuessler Apologies to jab, shot and “Fauci ouchie.” Oxford Languages’s 2021 Word of the Year is “vax.” That may seem like a no ...
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