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Unpublished Op-eds and Essays

Which unpublished (in print) piece would you like to read (latest on top)?

  • Closing the Income-Gap 
  • Prospero’s Lesson: The Power of Influence at Work in a H.  S.  English Class
  • Playwriting: How to Generate Plays in Your Language Arts Classes
  • The Role of Quaker Education in a Post 9/11 World
  • The Sentence Handbook: The Power of Teaching Punctuation
  • Zapped! There Is No Such Thing as Free TV
  • Race Bias on the SAT
  • Let’s Have No More “Overseers” in Iraq
  • Big Brother May Not Be Watching You–Yet!
  • Shelter in Place
  • Orwellian Double-Think in the Iraq War
  • My Amicus Curiae on Lawrence vs. Texas
  • It’s High Noon for Iraq
  • My Battles with the Confderate Battle Flag
  • Why Clonaid Should Be Aborted
  • Geetings from the North Pole
  • A Plaque on All Our Houses
  • A Plea for the Truth
  • O Congress! Reason Every Need!
  • Swooping Hawks for Those Who Think Young

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"A teacher who can be replaced by a machine should be."

—SF writer Arthur C. Clarke

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