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Top 10 Books for Selfish Citizens, 4th Quarter 2012

The following are the top 10 books for October – December 2012 as identified by the readers of Selfish Citizenship. Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist by Tara Smith The Head of Athena (The Cyrus Skeen Series) by Edward … Continue reading

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Teaching to the Test

I found another interesting quote in Joshua M. Dunn’s Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins; in 1983, Jeanne Chall (professor of education at Harvard) observed: Pre-Grade 4 reading can be said to represent the oral tradition, in that … Continue reading

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