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The newest essays, interviews, and features from Big Think.

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Barber overcompensated for his grandmother’s bad cooking.
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It’s changed how we’re consuming comedy, Huebel says.
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Some teachers even come to DonorsChoose to provide these.
If you really believe teachers are pivotal, put your money where your mouth is, says Best.
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When it comes to education, is bottom-up really the best approach? Does No Child Left Behind work?
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Best thinks it is possible to break a vicious cycle that doesn’t value education.
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If you don’t have a child in the system, why should you care?
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Best hopes DonorsChoose will nudge the public school system to action.
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Connecting classrooms in need to people who want to give.
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The difference of the urban classroom.
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Think of them as junior parents, Best says.
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Like James Frey, Jonathan Franzen had a colorful public controversy with Oprah and her book club. Given the chance to do it over, would the author of The Corrections handled […]
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Franzen discusses fiction, non-fiction and the need to draw the distinction.
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Jonathan Franzen on his book, Imperial Bedroom.