Daniel Wolff tells Anne Strainchamps that most Americans learn what they really need to know outside of school and that, as a society, we believe contradictory things about the value of public education.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Orr says modern poetry shouldn't intimidate us. He's the author of "Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry."
Debra Ginsberg tells Jim Fleming what can turn a shift into a nightmare; why so many wait staff are performers; and that people tip better when they're spending someone else's money.
Dalton Conley grew up in the housing projects of New York's lower East Side. But he went to school in a wealthy white neighborhood.
Historian Donald Sassoon tells Jim Fleming that the Mona Lisa is a great painting, but that other factors conspired to make it an international icon.
Katha Pollitt's Dangerous Idea? Your child is not a special snowflake.
A researcher stumbles on a key to rapid evolution in this story by Jeff Bauer.
Arturo Marcano tells Steve Paulson about the exploitative system of player development in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic that fuels the American major leagues.
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