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The Toyota Effect – Saving Sight

Oscar-nominated director Kief Davidson visits the busy eye clinic at Harbor-UCLA hospital, where patients were going blind waiting for medical services. He takes a look at the results of the hospital’s partnership with Toyota, quite literally through the failing eyes of Liseth, a diabetic patient hoping for a positive outcome.

 

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Will Obama’s New Guidelines Actually Reduce Testing in Schools? Probably Not Much

Click here: Obama’s guidelines will do “very little” to reduce excessive testing.

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Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is “green” energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems?

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Iowa’s initiative promotes college as minimum

Click here: Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad’s “Future Ready Iowa” goal is 70 percent of Iowans in the workforce to have education or training beyond high school by 2025
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Math, reading scores slip for nation’s school kids

Click here: Math, reading scores slip for nation’s school kids
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Iowa’s HS Graduation Rate Tops in Nation

Click here: Why Iowa’s graduation rate is so much higher than California’s
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The real reason germs spread in the winter

Click here: Flu season is a fact of life – but until recently, no one knew why. The answer hinges on the disgusting ways that germs pass between people.
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US High School drops Michelle Obama’s lunch program

Click here: Hundreds of students return to the cafeteria after Montana high school relinquishes $120,000 in federal funding and drops Michelle Obama’s lunch program
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Rockefeller: The Richest American Who Ever Lived

Was America’s first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, a greedy robber baron, a generous philanthropist, or both? And did the oil tycoon exploit America’s poor or give them access to much-needed energy? Historian and Hillsdale College professor Burt Folsom, author of “The Myth of the Robber Barons,” reveals the truth about the Rockefeller empire.

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Does Free Speech Offend You?

Should offensive speech be banned? Where should we, as a society, draw the line where permitted speech is on one side, and forbidden speech is on the other? Should we even have that line? And should free speech be limited by things like trigger warnings and punishments for microaggressions? Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, answers these questions and more.