Wis. SD asks Supreme Court about transgender case
The bathroom (and locker room/shower) question keeps coming up regarding transgender students. Maybe the Supreme Court should just decide this.
Academics
Photoessay: Eclipse USA at Madras High School
Saw the eclipse from the home bleachers at Madras H.S. in Madras, Ore. It was the show of a lifetime—brief but full of wonder.
In Portland, the day after & the day before
Anti-white supremacy marchers dotted the nation yesterday, including here in Portland, Ore. Trump tweeted something about healing.
Morality best learned from stories with humans
Children learn lessons about morality better from storybooks with human characters than they do if the stories have human-like animals.
Foreign language takes some emotion out of decisions
Does it matter if the background of a decision is presented in a language that's not your native tongue? Does emotion still play a role?
Religious, political diversity is united at U.Va.
As a prominent U.Va. dept. repudiates the violence of white supremacy, other writers compare Trump to the Indian prime minister.
Wildfires affect folks miles away in Montana Rockies
The Rocky Mountains in Mont. are breathtaking, but today, they're covered in smoke from wildfires that are impacting people's lives.
Some social studies looks like fiction under Trump
What should teachers do about questions they are sure to receive about the violence in Charlottesville last weekend?
Fins, arches, and hoodoos in the Utah mountains
The rocks in a "natural amphitheater" in Utah reveal clues as to how those structures were formed thousands or millions of years ago.
Sunspot moved from where it was 3 days ago
Every chance we get, we're looking at the sun ahead of the US eclipse on Aug. 21. Here's a little info about the sun itself: it rotates as a gas, not a solid.