10/30/2020: Senate confirms Supreme Court nominee a week ahead of Election Day - Rapper Ice Cube clarifies why he's working with Trump

Today's Article: Senate confirms Supreme Court nominee a week ahead of Election Day
From: CNN
Readability Score: 14.5

Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barret 52 - 48. Will this impact the election?

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Today's Alternate Article: Rapper Ice Cube clarifies why he's working with Trump
Readability Score: 8.4 

10/23/2020: Supreme Court Rules Pennsylvania Can Count Ballots Received After Election Day - Texas teen becomes one of the first female Eagle Scouts in the nation

Today's Article: Supreme Court Rules Pennsylvania Can Count Ballots Received After Election Day
From: NPR
Readability Score: 12.6

Counting votes after election day? Supreme Court rules on Pennsylvania but other states have other rules.

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Today's Alternate Article: Texas teen becomes one of the first female Eagle Scouts in the nation
Readability Score: 7.9 

9/25/2020: Airbus unveils concepts for hydrogen-powered plane - Mocking Display of Mail-In Ballots Labeled Crime

Today's Article: Airbus unveils concepts for hydrogen-powered plane
From: Fox News
Readability Score: 12.8

Airbus looking to soar over competition with environmentally friendly designs

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Today's Alternate Article: Mocking Display of Mail-In Ballots Labeled Crime
Readability Score: 9.4 

New Release - I Am Human

We just released our first educational video for the new school year!  

What are you? Some multiracial individuals are declaring "I Am Human." What are the implications for society?

You can watch and download this new program here. 

I Am Human - Coming Soon from izzit.org!

"It's very tempting to say, let's just forget it. I'm a human being."

The multiracial population in America is increasing. And it seems like most people – and society as a whole – would like these folks to "pick a side." To identify as one race or the other.

But as demographics shift from separate races to more of a continuum, who gets to decide how these individuals identify?

Meet several multiracial individuals, and hear about their experiences. What implications does this have for our society? Can we move beyond race?

Learn more about this upcoming educational video here.

Outside the Box - Coming Soon to izzit.org!

"Don't ask me what  I am. Ask me who I am."

Eli Steele just wants to register his son Jack for kindergarten. He has no idea the journey this will begin, or the questions it will lead to.

They have a complex family history. Son of slaves. Daughter of the revolution. Holocaust survivors. Interracial marriage pioneers in an era of segregation and discrimination.

Explore Eli and Jack's powerful story of individuality vs. group identity, how to cope with bullies, and the resilience of the human spirit in our new release, Outside the Box.

Adapted from the award-winning documentary, How Jack Became Black.

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NEW RELEASE: Too Big To Fail?

What is lobbying and how does it work? What’s crony capitalism? What does the tea tossed into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party have to do with big business? Teach all this and more with our new video, Too Big to Fail?.

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New Teaching Unit: 3 Keys to Success

New Release: 3 Keys to Success.

What choices will you make for your future? Will you use the 3 Keys to Success to help you?

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Energy Solutions: Who Chooses? New Release Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Energy Decisions.

It's not a trick for October, it's a treat! We have another new release for you.

Check out Energy Solutions: Who Chooses?

Join Johan Norberg on another exploratory adventure about the unintended consequences of energy decisions like ethanol and fracking around the world, from Germany to the U.S.

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2/25/13 - Do We Live in a Post-Truth Era?; Laura Ingalls' Sister May Not Have Lost Eyesight To Scarlet Fever

Today's Articles:

Reason
February 1, 2013
"Do We Live in a Post-Truth Era?"

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts," the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) famously quipped. But when it comes to social and environmental problems nowadays, nearly everyone thinks he is entitled to his own facts, and an army of experts is on hand to manufacture and promote the carefully curated truths they require. "

National Public Radio
February 7, 2013
"Laura Ingalls' Sister May Not Have Lost Eyesight To Scarlet Fever"

"Audie Cornish talks with University of Michigan pediatrician Beth Tarini, who writes in the latest issue of the journal Pediatrics that Mary Ingalls, sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, likely did not go blind as a result of scarlet fever. Tarini talks about what led her to research Ingalls' illness, and how she learned more about what might have actually caused her blindness."

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12/18/12 - Michigan Law and Right to Work Economics

Today's Articles:

ABC News
December 13, 2012
Right-to-Work Law Gives Michigan Unions New Task

"Now that Michigan has become a right-to-work state, unions in this stronghold of organized labor confront a new and urgent problem: convincing members to continue paying for their services instead of taking them for free."


Wall Street Journal
December 14, 2012
'Right to Work' Economics

"By adopting a "right-to-work" law this week, Michigan is joining a group of states where wages tend to be lower, but job growth stronger, than states that don't have the law."


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12/17/12 - Lenders and Spenders and Microwaved Bread

Today's Articles:

American
November 20, 2012
Lenders and Spenders: Confronting the Political Reality of Debt

"Is federal debt really nothing more than money ‘we owe to ourselves’? No. It frays the political fabric, and we are feeling its effects already."


Telegraph
December 1, 2012
Bread 'Can Keep Fresh for 60 Days'

"American researchers claim to have found a way to keep bread fresh for 60 days by "zapping" it in a special microwave."


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12/12/12 - Homeless Man Grateful But Barefoot Again and Ex-NASA Scientist's Effort To Protect Privacy

Today's Articles:

New York Times
December 2, 2012
Homeless Man Grateful for Boots but Barefoot Again

"Officer DePrimo was celebrated on front pages and morning talk shows, the Police Department came away with a burnished image and millions got a smile from a nice story.  But what of the shoeless man?"

New York Times
November 28, 2012
Ex-NASA Scientist's Effort to Protect Privacy is Frustrated by Courts and Thieves

"In 2007, Robert M. Nelson, an astronomer, and 27 other scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory sued NASA arguing that the space agency’s background checks of employees of government contractors were unnecessarily invasive and violated their privacy rights."

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12/3/12 - Eminent Domain in China and Budgeting the 'Fiscal Cliff'

Today's Articles:

McClatchy
November 26, 2012
At Edge of Fiscal Cliff, Everyone Fights to Protect His Bit of Budget

As Washington debates how to trim runaway federal budget deficits without going over a “fiscal cliff” of immediate tax increases and automatic spending cuts, special interest groups are mounting aggressive campaigns to make sure that they’re not the ones who have to pay the price.



South China Morning Post
November 23, 2012
'Nail house' couple refuse to move

"The owners of a five-story “nail house” situated in the middle of a huge dual carriageway in eastern Zhejiang province say they won’t move until they receive adequate compensation."


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