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Small Group Goes to Great Lengths to Block Homeschooling Regulation
by Jessica Huseman for ProPublica, This story was co-published with Slate. In the fall of 2003, police in New Jersey received a call from a concerned neighbor who’d found a boy rummaging in her...
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Homeschooling Regulations by State
by Jessica Huseman, special to ProPublica, and Lena Groeger, ProPublica, Homeschooling has been legal throughout the United States for about 25 years, but regulations vary dramatically by state. Only...
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Foes Dive for Discarded Records in Abortion Clinic Dumpsters
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog. The scene in front of abortion clinics is often tense, with clinic workers escorting patients past activists waving signs and...
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Top Tobacco Bond Banker Departs Barclays
by Cezary Podkul The go-to dealmaker in the market for tobacco bonds is gone from her post – a surprise departure that raises questions about the future direction of a once-burgeoning corner of Wall...
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10 Years Later, People Are Still Living in Toxic FEMA Trailers (MuckReads...
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The Human Reasons Why Athletes Who Dope Get Away With It
by David Epstein, ProPublica, and Michael J. Joyner, special to ProPublica, Last week, we examined reasons why the very nature of drug testing technology — which cannot eliminate false positives and...
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The Tiger Mom Tax: Asians Are Nearly Twice as Likely to Get a Higher Price...
by Julia Angwin, Surya Mattu and Jeff Larson, Read our methodology. Every year, thousands of high school students get ready for the SAT by using The Princeton Review’s test preparation services. But...
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Free Food and Networking: Apply For Our Diversity Mentorship Program at ONA
by Sisi Wei and Ryann Grochowski Jones ProPublica and Mashable are proud to announce our first-ever Diversity Mentorship Program at the Online News Association conference in Los Angeles this year. You...
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‘Dark Money’ Debate: Two Views on Whether the Term is Fair Game
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} As the rules around campaign finance have changed, so has our vocabulary. Yet while the term...
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When Big Data Becomes Bad Data
by Lauren Kirchner A recent ProPublica analysis of The Princeton Review’s prices for online SAT tutoring shows that customers in areas with a high density of Asian residents are often charged more....
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Taxpayers Fund Yet Another Unneeded Building in Afghanistan
by Megan McCloskey The beat goes on. For the third time in four months, the watchdog for spending on the war in Afghanistan has released a report that shows the U.S. military commissioned a...
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Nowhere to Run
by Pia Dangelmayer Every day we’re struck by terrible headlines concerning the refugee crisis in Europe: Austria finds 71 migrants dead in a truck. Hungarian police officers fire teargas at migrants....
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Did the Famous Desegregation of Yonkers Actually Work?
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Fans craving more of the HBO miniseries “Show Me a Hero” are in luck. While the David...
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Congressional Leaders Ask FDA About Coumadin Safety
by Charles Ornstein The bipartisan leadership of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is asking the Food and Drug Administration how it monitors the safety of the popular blood thinner Coumadin,...
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Passing the Test
by Marcelo Rochabrun As 65,000 4-year-olds start free, full-time pre-kindergarten today as part of New York City’s ambitious universal pre-K program, questions persist about whether the program is...
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First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS...
by Julia Angwin Since Edward Snowden exposed the extent of online surveillance by the U.S. government, there has been a surge of initiatives to protect users’ privacy. But it hasn’t taken long for one...
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Blue Water Veterans Share Their Agent Orange Stories
by Terry Parris Jr. The U.S. military sprayed about 19 million gallons of defoliants during the Vietnam War. The chemicals — mostly Agent Orange — killed the jungle brush and denied the enemy cover,...
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40 Years After Vietnam, Blue Water Navy Vets Still Fighting for Agent Orange...
by Charles Ornstein and Terry Parris Jr., ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, The Virginian-Pilot, This story was co-published with The Virginian-Pilot. To the best of his knowledge, Jim Smith never saw...
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A Pension Bond Reality Check
by Allan Sloan, This story was co-published with the Washington Post. The scary stock market that we’ve seen since mid-August is a classic example of how reality keeps intruding on theory. And it...
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The ‘Too Small’ HBCU That Sends More Blacks to Medical School Than Anyone...
by Terry Parris Jr. h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email?...
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