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If you know where to look online, you'll find concerned whispers about the ability of America's schoolchildren to spell.

Jodi Carreon began worrying about her older child's spelling ability a few years ago, when the child was in second grade.
In Carreon’s southern California school district, students had returned to the classroom following pandemic restrictions. Each child had a laptop, a feature of distance learning Carreon thought would be phased out as schooling returned to normal.
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Behold Mark Zuckerberg: man of principle. Witness the Meta CEO's dedication to the most high-minded of causes: "currying favor with whoever's in charge." In 2013, when Barack Obama was president, Zuckerberg co-founded FWD.us, a pro-immigration advocacy group.
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