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The Morgan Silver Dollar was born amid 19th Century economic and political conflict over whether the United States’ economy would have as a basis a “Gold Standard” or a bi-metallic economy based upon both gold and silver. “Free Silverites” and agrarian Populists wanted an inflationary silver-based means of exchange, which would make their debt repayment easier, while Eastern business and banking interests wanted a stable gold-based currency. The Bland-Allison Act (1878) birthed the Morgan Silver Dollar, benefiting both Western silver mining interests and “Free Silverite”/Populist interests.    The Morgan Silver Dollar especially benefited Western states’ (where silver dollars often circulated in...

First grade teacher Jamie Greenwood looks at a large sheet of clear plastic that hangs from the ceiling in her classroom at Westvale Elementary School in West Jordan on Aug. 19, 2020. Now that the pandemic is over, how will schools adjust again?Steve Griffin, Deseret News In March 2020, when the nation’s schools suddenly closed, my kids were four and six. Gray, the six-year-old, was in kindergarten at an old-school Montessori. Blake, the four-year-old, was in preschool. In the early days of the pandemic, I experienced the five stages of school closure the same way as many others: Confusion. Concern....

This week on Dezeen, we began our AItopia series, which will explore the impact of artificial intelligence on design, architecture and humanity. Along with an introduction to the series, which explained why we are focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), we created a guide to the key terms being used to discuss AI. In an opinion piece as part of the series, designer Freyja Sewell argued that our obsession with cyberpunk narratives was risking dystopian visions becoming a reality. [TAG1]This week we announced the shortlist for our AI illustration competition To mark the launch of the series we revealed that British architect Selina Yau...

All students from kindergarten to Grade 9 in British Columbia public schools will now be assessed with a proficiency scale instead of letter grades.

By Jim Hightower As Scottish literary giant Robert Burns wrote, “The best-laid schemes of mice and men / Go oft awry.” His 1785 poem, titled “To A Mouse,” could be directed today at the right-wing sloganeers who’ve been scheming so furiously to turn their hokey “woke” snobbery into a winning political stratagem. “Your local librarian is woke!” they screech. “So is Disney, Inc.! Some of your churches, too, plus all Democrats, and — OMG — even Bud Light!” Wokeism is the Red Scare, Welfare Queen, and Willy Horton rolled into one, forming the main “issue” of Republicans now running for president,...