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This is our final post in this feature for the school year. If you’ve used it with your classes, write in and let us know!

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Although Will Walker, who will attend Williams College, counts himself “lucky,” he encourages other students with unfulfilled college plans to wait: “the universe usually has a way of working things out.”

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What has the Smithsonian Institution recently acquired for the National Museum of African-American History and Culture?

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What role does nostalgia play in your life?

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Can you calculate the year in which a certain two broods of cicadas will both hatch in the United States?

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See what you know about the news of the day.

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This word has appeared in 116 New York Times articles in the past year.

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President Obama told Morehouse College graduates that “laws, hearts and minds have been changed to the point where someone who looks like you can serve as president.”

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An officer’s decision to enter a home in Uniondale, N.Y., and open fire, killing a gunman and a student being held hostage, may have eliminated the opportunity to negotiate with the gunman, some experts said.

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Parents and testing skeptics say that field-test results, which have no consequences for students or teachers, turn classrooms into focus groups and add more stress to an anxiety-filled process.

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