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By Admin August 1, 2025

Happy Emancipation Day

A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots

Issue # 213

World Order Appears to be coming apart, but this is a time of Great Hope

August 1, 2025

Religions failing to act as the largest slaughter of the 21st century takes place

August 1, 2025

After 63 years of Independence…

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Stepping away from US politics: A time to de-stress

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By Dr. Alis Headlam August 1, 2025

World Order Appears to be coming apart, but this is a time of Great Hope

This is an angry and frustrated world we live in today. Can you feel it as you move about your day, or watch the news and social media stories? Evidence of …

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By Dr. Alis Headlam July 4, 2025

Eye movements and reading

Current reading practices operate on the belief that the eyes play a pivotal role in picking up information that is essential for reading. So central is this belief that whole programmes …

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By Dr. Alis Headlam June 13, 2025

Welcome to the Rock

Emergency! No planes can land in the United States. There’s been a terrible accident!! Or something?? All planes coming from Europe and the East diverted to a small island in the …

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By Dr. Alis Headlam May 30, 2025

Another Country

I was 14 in 1961 when my family moved to Istanbul, Turkey, from the United States for a one-year Fulbright appointment that my dad received. He was offered a position to …

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By Dr. Alis Headlam May 16, 2025

The Notebook

“If our teaching is to be an art, we must draw from all we know, feel and believe in order to create something beautiful. To teach well we do not need …

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By Dr. Alis Headlam May 2, 2025

World Crisis

Repeatedly what I encountered on a long trip to South America, the coast of Africa, Morrocco and Spain reinforced the fact that nowhere in the world is exempt from the concern …

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By Dr. Alis Headlam April 11, 2025

The hands-off protests

I lived through the Civil Rights and Vietnam eras in the 1960-70s when hundreds of thousands of people protested racism and the war with marches and speeches. We came away thinking …

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By Dr. Alis Headlam March 14, 2025

Education that unites us and builds strength

Instead of supporting separation and divisiveness, as I pointed out in my article for Public Opinion December 20, 2024 and reprinted February 28, 2025, education can promote unity, investigation, curiosity and …

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By Dr. Alis Headlam February 28, 2025

Education Defines Us And Separates Us

Since I started teaching in the 1970s, I watched as educators began promoting divisions by pulling students out into ‘special education’ resource rooms. I remember how my classes changed when students …

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By Dr. Alis Headlam January 31, 2025

Declaration of inclusion

In 2021 a group of four Vermont citizens in the United States became involved in promoting a declaration that states ‘All are welcome’. Towns and cities across the state of Vermont …

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