How to understand the sentence, "There’s no news like bad news"? and how to determine the meaning of "like"? Thank you for help!

What does "Better at teaching them what" mean? Thomas Jefferson and the other early American crusaders for public education believed the schools would help sustain democracy by bringing everyone together to share values and learn a common history. Home schooling forsakes all that by defining education not as the pursuit of an entire community but as the work of one family and its chosen circle, which can be great. Despite some drawbacks, there are signs that home-schooling parents are doing a better job than public schools at teaching their kids. But as the number of kids learning at home grows, we should pause to wonder： Better at teaching them what? Home schooling may turn out better students, but does it create better citizens? I think that it means "which way is better at teaching the kids". Am I right?

Is it a possessive case or a prepositional phrase? Allegations of corruption are a fact of public life in post-Soviet independent states. Is "of corruption" a possessive case or a prepositional phrase? I think it's a prepositional phrase, but not sure.

Am I right to correct the sentence by this way? Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the most scarce of all resources. The corrected one: Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, which makes time itself the most scarce of all resources.

Help. Which one is the appropriate meaning of infinitive marker "to" in the sentence? The sentence: It's plain to see I know it means very clear, but don't know the meaning of infinitive marker "to". ■expressing purpose or intention. I set out to buy food. ■expressing an outcome, result, or consequence. he managed to escape. ■expressing a cause. I'm sorry to hear that. ■indicating a desired or advisable action. we asked her to explain.The sentence: It's plain to see I know the sentence means it's very clear.

A bewildering sentence needed your help The sentence: The early radio people were admired as much as they were. Question: I think the sentence should be "The early radio people were admired as much as they whould be" . Thank you for helping. Full text: If you arrived at the home of almost any average American family in the evening during the 1930s, it's likely they'd be gathered around their radios. It probably would have been a console model and it would have been the most prominent piece of furniture in the living room. Family values were in. One of the era's most popular shows, One Man's Family, reached an estimated 28 million listeners (out of a total population of about 125 million) every Wednesday at 8 p. m. on the NBC network. At the beginning of the widely heard program, an announcer's voice said the show was “dedicated to the mothers and fathers of the younger generation and to their bewildering offspring.“ In the 1930s, “radio was a companion. It was something very much like a friend, and people had a warm place in their hearts for it in ways we'd find schmaltzy and a bit simple,” says Philip J. Harwood, an associate professor of communications at the University of Dayton in Ohio who specializes in the history of broadcasting. Amos ‘n’ Andy, a comedy show about two black characters—performed，incidentally, by two white guys—also was wildly popular. Almost every American knew radio singer Kate Smith's great songs, “When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain” and “God Bless America”. The telephone number most likely to be readily recognized by the average American was Murray Hill 8-9933, which is the number anyone could use and had appeared on that evening's program. <The early radio people were admired as much as they were> because “they knew they had to rely on words, and words alone,” Harwood says. ”Listening to them today, you realize how much they were able to make themselves into artists.”

Can someone help me to figure out what the word "of" means in the sentence? The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. 【As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy】, doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease. Thanks for help. The question has been solved by myself.