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  • Discipline Suffers as San Diego Schools Adopt ‘Anti-Racism’ Grading System

    Discipline Suffers as San Diego Schools Adopt ‘Anti-Racism’ Grading System0

    Equality is out and “equity” is in. The San Diego Unified School District has approved a change to their grading system that coincides with broader ideas of restorative justice and “anti-racism.” They will do this by no longer letting late assignments and bad behavior in the classroom affect grades. Students also won’t be penalized for

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  • Diocletian’s Great Persecution of Christians: How it Began

    Diocletian’s Great Persecution of Christians: How it Began1

    The rise of Christianity in Rome was neither linear nor neat. At various times, it was met with resistance and bloodshed. Yet prior to the rise of Emperor Diocletian (244 A.D. – 311 A.D.), Christians had lived relatively free of state persecution for many decades, a period Eusebius called “the little peace of the Church.”

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  • Dining Out is Killing Americans’ Budgets

    Dining Out is Killing Americans’ Budgets0

    • September 11, 2015

    This past spring, Americans’ spending at restaurants surpassed their spending at grocery stores for the first time ever: At the same time, a recent survey showed that “Among those [making $75,000 or more] who are not saving as much as they believe they should because of spending on lifestyle purchases, 68 percent blamed dining out

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  • Dimming the IQ of America

    Dimming the IQ of America0

    Americans and Europeans are getting dumber. At least that’s the conclusion David Solway reaches in his piece “The Decline of Intelligence in the West.” In the last century various studies have shown the average IQ in Western countries dropping by about 14 percent, Solway reports. He points readers to these investigations and offers a score

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  • Dilemmas of the 21st-Century American Parent

    Dilemmas of the 21st-Century American Parent0

    Standing in the breeze on a warm spring day at the end of another school year, I listen as a pre-Kindergarten child receives a prize at the elementary school’s yearly awards ceremony. Inwardly, I cringe as I hear “ . . . and she wants to be a YouTuber when she grows up.” My attention

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  • Dilbert Cartoon on Climate Change Prompts Rebuttal from Yale

    Dilbert Cartoon on Climate Change Prompts Rebuttal from Yale1

    A communications group at Yale University has put out a video (see below) that seems to be a rebuttal to a Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams poking fun at climate scientists and their misplaced confidence in models. The video is full of impressive-looking scientists talking about charts and data and whatnot. It probably cost a

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