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By Aldington "Junior" Murray July 4, 2025

The Russian roulette of travelling out of and into the USA

The term Russian roulette is the practice of loading a bullet into one chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at one’s …

Issue # 211

The Russian roulette of travelling out of and into the USA

July 4, 2025

To prevent athletes from switching allegiance

July 4, 2025

Our education system is in serious crisis

July 4, 2025

Eye movements and reading

July 4, 2025
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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By Dr. Alis Headlam December 20, 2024

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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  • The Russian roulette of travelling out of and into the USA
  • To prevent athletes from switching allegiance
  • Our education system is in serious crisis
  • Eye movements and reading
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  • Welcome to the Rock
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  • Another Country
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