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The thing about Erik Erikson is that he, like many other psychologists,...
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Sometimes, I get a text on Friday nights. I’m home alone watching a movie or reading a book, and this text would be my only link to the outside world. It would say something like, “Hey, come on out...
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A student settles in to take the PARCC test, but instead of carefully reading the passages and typing up a well thought-out essay, he checks in random answers and writes absolute gibberish for the essay....
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Scroll scroll scroll. Who liked my picture? Scroll...
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