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  • How Teachers Are Doing Violence to Books

    How Teachers Are Doing Violence to Books0

    My friend’s daughter attends a local school with a classical curriculum, where they are now reading Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Many people would hear this and immediately laud the school for its rigor and devotion to the Great Books. But predictably, as my friend’s daughter told me, the teacher is guiding students through the text

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  • How Tall Is Michael Bloomberg, Really?

    How Tall Is Michael Bloomberg, Really?0

    He’s 5’5″, or I’ll eat my hat. President Donald Trump recently mocked Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg as “a 5’4” mass of dead energy.” Immediately, the mainstream press and tech companies were out playing defense for the diminutive billionaire founder of Bloomberg LP and former mayor of New York City. A National Public Radio host

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  • How Summer Camps and Scout Groups Turn Kids into Citizens

    How Summer Camps and Scout Groups Turn Kids into Citizens0

    The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has both proud supporters and critics of its policies on religious beliefs and sexuality. But for more than a century, the organisation has performed a distinct and vital social function. The BSA and other youth-camping associations developed in the early 20th century. They came to exist primarily as a

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  • How Students Have Turned Their Back on Civil Discourse

    How Students Have Turned Their Back on Civil Discourse0

    More than a half-century ago, Coretta Scott King addressed Harvard University students in the wake of the assassination of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr. She said: Today’s student is a serious-minded, independent-thinking individual who seeks to analyze and understand the problems of our society, and find solutions to these problems, which are in keeping with the

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  • How Students ‘Ghost’ Through Online Degree Programs

    How Students ‘Ghost’ Through Online Degree Programs0

    As a college ethics professor, I try not to give advice to my students about how to cheat—even inadvertently. However, I sometimes slip and mention a loophole that students have been exploiting ever since the advent of online education. Unfortunately, the loophole keeps getting larger. By not closing it, colleges and universities have turned their

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  • How Storytelling Could Revitalize U.S. History Scores

    How Storytelling Could Revitalize U.S. History Scores1

    Whatever I teach, I teach storytelling because it is an expression of human creativity that provides perspective. Stories help us understand our world by showing us that random events surrounding our lives only seem random, but are in fact connected. Stories enable us to perceive a higher level of meaning. Fiction such as J.R.R. Tolkien’s The

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