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Lesson plan; The US midterm elections 2026 Democrats Win Control of Congress as Voters Punish Trump

November 4, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

Latest Midterm Results at a Glance Democrats have won control of Congress in a stunning rebuke of Donald Trump’s agenda,

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Lesson Plan: Putin wants to be 150 years old, his daugher is helping him

April 27, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

‘Vladimir Putin’s Daughter Is on a Mission to ‘Cheat God or Nature’ as Russia Plans Anti-Ageing Drug Putin’s daughter is

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Are We Speaking Less? Language, Technology, and Human Connection

April 14, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

We’re losing 338 spoken words every day The spoken word is in decline, according to new research from the universities of Missouri-Kansas

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Lesson Plan: Would You Apply for a “Backup Passport”?

March 24, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

After Canada relaxed parts of its citizenship-by-descent rules in December 2025, many Americans began combing through their family trees to

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Lesson plan; immutable full documentary

March 11, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

FULL DOCUMENTARY: Immutable is a feature length documentary following students in the Washington D.C. Urban Debate League as they discover

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Lesson plan: Watergate (Nixon) and the Epstein Files (Trump) — accountability, disclosure, and the politics of “missing records”

February 27, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

In a dramatic U-turn, US President Donald Trump on Sunday called for Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote to release all

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Lesson plan; Analyzing Mark Carney’s WEF Davos Speech (rhetoric, argument, and “rupture” politics)

January 22, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

EU leaders would do well to meditate on the seminal lesson that the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, delivered at this year’s

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The Learning Network

December 17, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

The 10 Most Commented-On Writing Prompts of 2025 These are the writing prompts that garnered the most student responses on

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A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country

Lesson Plan: Navigating the AI Revolution in Writing Education

April 24, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

Grade Level: High School (Grades 10–12) or Early UniversitySubject Areas: English Language Arts, Media Studies, Ethics As artificial intelligence makes

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Lesson Plan: Creative Problem Solving and Rule Interpretation – The Case of NYC’s Subway Dogs

November 26, 2024 Ann S. Michaelsen

Grade Level: High school / upper middle school Subject: English Language Arts, Social Studies, or Ethics Objective: Analyze how individuals

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