Ben Talsma
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Why did you become a teacher? If you join the profession after college and stay until you retire, you’ll spend forty…
“...with liberty and justice for all.” Many of us have said the words every day for years — but how often…
This Fourth of July, we celebrated our nation’s independence and our freedoms were on full display. Which fireworks event should we go to?…
There’s an old cliché in business that “what gets measured gets managed.” That reality is largely to blame for our overemphasis on standardized…
I went back to my old classroom yesterday, after all the students had gone home for the summer. Empty classrooms are always thick…
To Whom it May Concern: Congratulations! You’ve made it. You’ve persevered through the most difficult school year of our…
The world is living through a K-shaped recovery; certain sectors of the economy have recovered quickly from the…
During World War I, the death rate from bacterial pneumonia was 18%. In World War II, that number fell to less than 1%,…