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Every day, my 8th graders tackle a paragraph riddled with errors and make corrections. I get these at Education World. We then go over the errors as a class.
Pretty straight forward, right?
Well, most of the time.
This was today’s unedited text:
Dedicated on October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship [...]

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Upton Sinclair said, “It’s difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on him not understanding it.”
I really liked this quote. I think I’ve actually run into this phenomenon in a couple of arenas (of my life) recently. It certainly would explain some things.
A little context:
I’m a clean energy [...]

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