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It's Monday, May 19, 2025. Today, Mary Washington Healthcare and Radiologic Associates of Fredericksburg sever contract, and the editor on public educations' revolutionary opportunity.
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Contract Between Mary Washington Healthcare and Radiologic Associates of Fredericksburg Ending July 1
By Adele Uphaus
Radiologic Associates of Fredericksburg will no longer provide radiology services at Mary Washington and Stafford hospitals. Services at Medical Imaging locations will not be affected.
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FROM THE EDITOR: Public Schools Must Face Unsettling Reality
By Martin Davis
Public education as it has been practiced in the United States for decades is facing an existential crisis. How it responds will strengthen its hand, or accelerate the privatization of education.
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Great article on education! For another lively and hopeful dialogue about the purpose of education today from a wide lens that we can all relate to, see ‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’
May 13, 2025, New York Times
Students are already using A.I. to learn and write. The education policy expert, Rebecca Winthrop, explores with Ezra Klein, the big questions emerging for educators and parents. You can listen or read.