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July 31, 2020 00:27:30
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#1558: School Librarians Fight COVID Slide | The Best Of Our Knowledge

This week on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll hear about the fight against COVID slide. Summer slide happens every year. When students return...

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July 24, 2020 00:27:26
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#1557: Skills 21 & Teacher Hiring In A Recession | The Best Of Our Knowledge

Skills 21 is a program in Connecticut that has challenged students to innovate and be creative for years. Earlier this year, along with the...

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July 17, 2020 00:27:30
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#1556: Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth | The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nearly five million young people, more than 10 percent of youth aged sixteen to twenty-four, experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment. This week...

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July 10, 2020 00:27:30
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#1555: Demagogue – The Life Of Senator Joe McCarthy | The Best Of Our Knowledge

On this week’s The Best Of Our Knowledge, we’ll talk about the new biography Demagogue – The Life and Long Shadow Of Senator Joe...

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July 03, 2020 00:27:30
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#1554: The Segregationist History Of School Choice | The Best Of Our Knowledge

Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll hear about the segregationist history of the school choice movement. School choice has been an explosive...

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June 26, 2020 00:27:30
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#1553: Deepwater Horizon: 10 Years Later | The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded in April of 2010. But it was 10 years ago this month that the oil began showing...

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