List of Education articles
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51UiXAphGgL Book excerpt: Defense Secretary Mattis discusses his favorite books, and why
General James Mattis has accumulated perhaps one of the largest personal libraries of an active-duty military officer ever known in the modern world.
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8151496998_16a3156fb1_o Do NCOs need to write better?: Hell no, says former enlisted guy who is a writer
If I were preparing my future NCO Corps for anything, it would be advanced math and computer skills.
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8151496998_16a3156fb1_o Should NCOs be required to write better?
An Australian regimental sergeant major thinks they should up their literary game.
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Horse_Feathers_Burning_College You so smart? Then this job is for you.
I actually think lots of Best Defense readers would enjoy this gig.
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FERGUSON, MO - AUGUST 17: Tear gas rains down on a woman kneeling in the street with her hands in the air after a demonstration over the killing of teenager Michael Brown by a Ferguson police was attacked by police August 17, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Despite the Brown family's continued call for peaceful demonstrations, violent protests have erupted nearly every night in Ferguson since his August 9, death. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) The Revolution Will Not Be Philosophized
If you choose not to condemn political violence, is that an expression of humility, or elitism?
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A young girl looks at a star gazing app on an ipad during the partial solar eclipse at Hatch Warren near Basingstoke, southwest of London on March 20, 2015. The Basingstoke Astronomical Society held an informal meeting where people could look through different telescopes at the eclipse. However, the skies over Basingstoke were cloudy and the solar eclipse was not visible although it got noticeably darker. AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNIS (Photo credit should read ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images) Gender Hack
The dearth of women in the tech world is cultural — and therefore entirely reversible.
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U.S. Army paratroopers from C Company, 1-503rd Infantry Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade conduct a Squad Live Fire Exercise with the Italian Army 8^ Regiment Alpine at Rivoli Bianchi range, Venzone Italy, Feb 02, 2017. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S., European, Africa or Central Commands' areas of responsibility within 18 hours. (released, photo by graigg faggionato) An Army program that helps officers become critical strategic thinkers
Institutional instinct might have led Army leadership to create a new military professional education program at the War College. Instead, Gen. Odierno chose to look outside the system of the Army for ideas and energy.
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JUPITER, FL - MARCH 08: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up his book after holding a press conference at the Trump National Golf Club Jupiter on March 8, 2016 in Jupiter, Florida. Trump is projected to win the Republican Presidential primaries in Mississippi and Michigan. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) The Shallow State
Forget the conspiracy theories. Something much more dangerous is seeking to gut our government and change the character of our society.
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rong_lead The Fading American Dreams of China’s Most Notorious ‘Snakehead’
Before she died in prison, Sister Ping smuggled thousands of migrants from an obscure Chinese county to U.S. shores. Some now wish they'd never left.
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FLORENCE, SC - FEBRUARY 5: People hold a homemade Donald Trump sign before a campaign rally February 5, 2016 in Florence, South Carolina. Trump's airplane was unable to return to New Hampshire from New York due to a snowstorm so he is holding an event in South Carolina. He plans to return to New Hampshire on Monday. The South Carolina Republican primary will be held on February 20. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images) America Is Turning Into a Confederacy of Dunces
Why is Donald Trump within a whisker of the White House? Two-thirds of the country can’t even name the three branches of government.
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Kirsch The Bard of His Own Backyard
Shakespeare may never have left England, but he became the most global writer who ever lived.
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Indian schoolchildren wait in line for their mid-day meal at a government primary school in the outskirts of Hyderabad on June 13, 2011, on the opening day of the new academic year. The government of India's Andhra Pradesh state has introduced English as a second language from Class 1 onwards for the 2011-2012 academic year. India's National Knowledge Commission has admitted that no more than one percent of country's population uses English as a second language. AFP PHOTO/Noah SEELAM (Photo credit should read ) Here Come the Young
In the coming years, the population of people under the age of 30 in some of the most fragile and unstable countries is going to skyrocket. And the world is not ready for them.
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BEIJING, CHINA: TO GO WITH STORY "CHINA-MUSIC-PIANO-EDUCATION" A young girl gets ready to play the piano at the Aiyue Piano Kindergarten in Daxing on the outskirts of Beijing, 16 March 2005. Parents who put their children into the school are keen to see quick returns for their investment, and want children to learn as much and as quickly as possible. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images) China’s High-Pressure Network of Cram-Schools for Tots
Chinese kindergartens are required to go easy. That means many youngsters study overtime.
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Scenes from faith University in Istanbul, Turkey. The University one of the learning establishments founded by the Gulen movement, or Cemaat, an organization that champions math and sciences. The organization is run by a reclusive cleric based in the US named Fethullah Gulen. The movement is in current conflict with the ruling AKP party, and its had Prime Minister Erdogan in Turkey. (Photo by ) Fethullah Gulen’s Race to the Top Is Over
The Turkish cleric's decades-long plan to use schools to acquire political power and cultural influence has ended in shambles.
