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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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  • How Stoicism Can Help Americans Regain Our Entrepreneurial Edge

    How Stoicism Can Help Americans Regain Our Entrepreneurial Edge5

    For all its (enormous) downsides, there was one silver lining to the Covid-19 pandemic: Entrepreneurship shot way up. The combination of remote work—and the new opportunities for disruption caused by massive changes to the economy—led to a boom in the start-up world. But sustaining a new business takes more than some societal changes or the

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  • How statistics are twisted to obscure public understanding

    How statistics are twisted to obscure public understanding0

    Mark Twain attributed to Benjamin Disraeli the famous remark: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ In every industry, from education to healthcare to travel, the generation of quantitative data is considered important to maintain quality through competition. Yet statistics rarely show what they seem. If you look at recent airline

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  • How SpellCheck and AutoCorrect are Destroying Kids’ Grammar

    How SpellCheck and AutoCorrect are Destroying Kids’ Grammar0

    One thing school-aged parents can agree upon is their dissatisfaction with the lack of writing instruction their children receive in grade school. Writing rules, language arts, essay composition, sentence structure, punctuation, style—all of these things have come up in casual conversations with parents you bump into at the store, in the parking lot, and on

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