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  • Failure to Teach Cursive is Becoming a ‘Security Issue’

    Failure to Teach Cursive is Becoming a ‘Security Issue’0

    While volunteering in a program for inner city children this past weekend, I was charged to work with a little girl who seemed to be around 9 or 10 years-old. We quietly worked side by side for a few minutes, each making a copy of the day’s writing assignment, until the little girl looked at

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  • Failure to Launch: Young Americans Living with Parents Hits 75-Year High

    Failure to Launch: Young Americans Living with Parents Hits 75-Year High0

    Via the Wall Street Journal: Almost 40% of young Americans were living with their parents, siblings or other relatives in 2015, the largest percentage since 1940, according to an analysis of census data by real estate tracker Trulia. Despite a rebounding economy and recent job growth, the share of those between the ages of 18

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  • Failure Made Walt Disney Great

    Failure Made Walt Disney Great1

    December 15, 2016, will mark the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney’s passing. Half a century later, I vividly recall the intense sadness I felt when I learned, at age 13, that he had died. It was as though I had lost a close member of the family. I doubt that I ever missed a single

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  • Failure Can Inspire Humility (If You’re Wise)

    Failure Can Inspire Humility (If You’re Wise)0

    Failure is like the original sin in the biblical narrative: everyone has it. Regardless of class, caste, race, or gender, we are all born to fail, we practise failure for as long as we live, and pass it on to others. Just like sin, failure can be disgraceful, shameful and embarrassing to admit. And did

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  • Failing Well Is the Key to Success

    Failing Well Is the Key to Success0

    We are a week into the new year, and undoubtedly, many have already “failed” at keeping some of their resolutions. While it is all too easy to be overly critical of ourselves, losing ourselves in self-deprecating defeat is never the productive route. So instead of getting bogged down by failure because you were not able

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  • Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education

    Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education0

     Department of Education recently proposed new regulations to punish colleges that attract students with misleading claims. But what if the whole system of higher education in America is guilty of that? In his latest book, Charles Sykes, a senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, makes the case that it is. Fail U.: The False Promise of

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