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Right before Thanksgiving, I returned exams for one of my classes. It wasn’t pretty, unfortunately. My classes usually create a fairly normal bell curve, especially in the A-C range. This time, I had a slew of poor efforts that created a deep failure pool. I do pay attention to the results of my assessments and…
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“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
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“Americans had been well prepared for their revoluion by colonial institutions. The American people had long been knit together by their towns, schools, congregations, and militia. Public issues had always been subject to debate. Every turn of the revolutionary movement had been argued—in town meetings (in other words, not decided elsewhere and dictated from above,…