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  • Does It Pay to Graduate from an ‘Elite’ University? Not as Much as You’d Think

    Does It Pay to Graduate from an ‘Elite’ University? Not as Much as You’d Think0

    As the deadline for applications for mid-year admission to university approaches, prospective students face two important choices: what to study, and at which university. If past experience is any guide, places at the Group of Eight (Go8) universities will be in high demand. In 2017, the Go8 universities attracted the largest share of undergraduate applications

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  • Does it Pay to ‘Buy Local’?

    Does it Pay to ‘Buy Local’?0

    When I was a boy in Boonville, North Carolina, population 600 in the early 1960s, my mom used to take us shopping a couple of times a year in nearby Winston-Salem. Once I asked her why we didn’t shop there more often. The stores offered far more variety, and Winston was less than forty-five minutes

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  • Does Insurance Cover Rioting and Looting Damage?

    Does Insurance Cover Rioting and Looting Damage?0

    Since the death of George Floyd in late May, violent riots and looting have broken out in many major cities, eventually overshadowing peaceful protests and calls for criminal justice reform. From Portland to Chicago to Kenosha, rioters have smashed windows, lit fires, attacked government properties, assaulted people in the streets, and looted storefronts. In Minneapolis

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  • Does hookup culture differ on Catholic campuses?

    Does hookup culture differ on Catholic campuses?0

    Daniel is “free-spirited and open-minded” about hooking up. As one of the 70 percent of students who do so each year on U.S. college campuses, he embraces hookups and their culture of students having sexual encounters without expectations of any feelings, much less relationships. Hooking up, according to Daniel, is all about “fun,” “gratification,” “curiosity,”

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  • Does Homework Still Have Value?

    Does Homework Still Have Value?0

    We all remember complaining as kids about homework. Those of us who are parents have had it repeated by our own kids, as will you, too, if you become a parent. So it would be wonderful if research were to discover that homework doesn’t do much good. Then we could convince educators to drop the

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  • Does Homeschooling Give Children More Room to Excel?

    Does Homeschooling Give Children More Room to Excel?0

    Many homeschooled children continue to demonstrate impressive academic feats. The latest example is a homeschooled Minnesota teen who became one of a very small number of students to achieve a perfect score on the ACT. As Fox 9 reports, Sam Mansfield scored a 36 on the February ACT. According to the testing service, of the

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