The loudest voices currently declaring the system’s failures often come from the generations who experienced the post-World War II flurry of acts, court cases and reforms that shaped 20th-century education in America.…
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LETTER from ERNA MORGAN McREYNOLDS The Joys, Challenges of Retirement Mom told me that they promised her the “Golden Years” but she got the “Rust Years.” She had dreamed of retiring. Yet after a couple of weeks into retirement her litany changed from “can’t wait to retire” to telling me: “Don’t do it’’. My Mom was born when women were supposed to stay home, while their husbands supported the family. But, my Dad, Mom’s husband, lost their farm and his…
