A long-established custom for many teachers has been to ask students to count the number of books in their homes, then report back the next day. In most cases, the number of books is directly proportional to how well or…
“Day after day, the wide expanses of Russia pass by. There are harvested fields as far as the eye can see, and in between some huge barns and farmsteads,” notes young Günter Koschorrek late in October 1942, as his unit…
The children of working-class Americans embraced rock ‘n roll during the 1950s because it offered maximum emotional satisfaction with fewer intellectual demands. No need to bone up on academic learning when feel-good “rhythm” had no prerequisite. Did…
Saturday in Spearfish Paid for by Gordon Howie for Senate, PO Box 866, Rapid City, SD 57709
by Eric Sloane In early days, the word discipline did not refer to punishment as it now does, and it seems a pity that a respected word has become ugly and dreaded. Classroom discipline meant classroom rules,…
It’s commonplace to talk about Islam as a “religion of peace” these days, suggesting that ISIS is surely an unrepresentative historical aberration. True enough if the rank-and-file of any population can be said to be more focused on day-to-day comforts…