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After arguing weeks earlier that a new pro-life measure in Texas was a “public health threat,” on Thursday, NBC’s
Today show hailed a high school valedictorian in the state for using her graduation speech to launch into a pro-abortion tirade trashing the law. While the policy protecting unborn children was labeled “controversial” in the report, the student’s nasty political screed was touted as a “powerful” address greeted with “positive reaction.”
“Plus, a high school valedictorian goes off script in the middle of her pre-approved speech to deliver a powerful and unexpected message,” co-host Hoda Kotb teased early in the show. Teasing the upcoming story again minutes later, fellow co-host Craig Melvin touted the teenager
Should marathons and running events require proof of COVID vaccine? The Boston Marathon and the New York City Marathon are making triumphant returns this fall. Neither is requiring vaccination for participants.
By Matt Futterman New York Times May 24, 2021 7:34am Text size Copy shortlink:
Major marathons are back. Following the moves of the Boston Marathon, the New York City Marathon announced a return to the roads on Nov. 7, with 33,000 runners instead of its usual 50,000-plus, or about 60 percent of its usual size.
The marathon announcements share something with seemingly every other major race that is set to return there is no requirement for all runners to have a vaccination.
The Atlantic
True Inclusion Requires Viewpoint Diversity
No one marker of identity shapes a student’s worldview, the educator Erin McLaughlin argues, and children should be taught how to think not what to think.
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The Atlantic
Erin McLaughlin, an educator in Pennsylvania, believes that, in school and in life, people should study what others think and why. But in her estimation, many educational institutions that purport to value diversity and inclusion fail to treat viewpoint diversity which she defines as “the recognition that nobody’s worldview is complete, and that no one marker of identity actually defines the way we see the world around us” as a vital part of civic education. Her mission: to persuade educational institutions to put viewpoint diversity at the center of their cultures and curricula.