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Even before the pandemic lock-downs, American teachers from sea to shining sea reported a critical shortage of teachers within their ranks, and have watched in horror at the crippling levels of greed, arrogance, apathy, and ignorance at every level of K-12 educational governance. While embattled teachers have continued to try in vain to draw attention to the issues, our leaders have failed to acknowledge the problems at all. But since covid, the nation’s teachers have borne witness to a break neck hastening pace of this downward spiral–and a total avoidance of a conversation from our ...

Chaos wears a leash—and love might just be found in a poop bag. Wren Montgomery is a flannel-wearing, glitter-loving dog walker with a flair for attracting furballs and drama in equal measure. Theo Everhart is a latte-art-perfectionist and the uptight owner of the local cat café. Their feud? Legendary. Their accidental partnership on a community fundraiser? A disaster waiting to happen. Or maybe... the beginning of something neither of them saw coming.

Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of 20th-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries, as he moved easily from the podium, to the piano, to television with his nationally celebrated Young People’s Concerts, which introduced an entire generation to the joy of classical music. In this fascinating new biography, the breadth of Bernstein’s musical composition is explored, through the spectacular range of music he composed—from West Side Story to Kaddish to A Quiet Place and beyond—and through his intensely public role as an internationally celebrated conductor.