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  • Do Tablets Detract from Parent-Child Bonding Time?

    Do Tablets Detract from Parent-Child Bonding Time?0

    • August 31, 2015

    Are tablet computers harming our children’s ability to read? That’s a question asked by a recent article in The Guardian. A definitive answer remains rather illusive. Because tablets and many other tech devices are relatively new, it’s difficult to definitively determine if tablet usage is leading to a decline in reading. Some studies show it

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  • Do Schools Really Need More Money?

    Do Schools Really Need More Money?0

    A common chorus of if/then statements dominates most contemporary discussions of education reform: If schools had more money, then they would do better at educating kids. If teachers were paid more money, then they would do better at educating kids. If there were more taxpayer support for traditional public schools, then we would have better

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  • Do School Book Bans Infringe on Parental Authority?

    Do School Book Bans Infringe on Parental Authority?1

    When I hear the phrase “book ban,” the image that comes to mind is something straight out of “Fahrenheit 451” – books torn from private residences, doused in kerosene, and thrown onto a blazing funeral pyre of intellectual tradition, removing all certainty that such works ever existed. Yet when American media uses the phrase “book

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  • Do Republicans have any Credibility on Spending?

    Do Republicans have any Credibility on Spending?0

    I recently had dinner with two friends, both of whom are successful attorneys involved in Republican politics. Conversation turned to the presidency of George W. Bush. When I mildly pooh-poohed the president’s record on spending, I was brought to task. “W had the best record on discretionary spending of any president since Nixon,” my friend

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  • Do Public High Schools Really Unify Society?

    Do Public High Schools Really Unify Society?0

    If someone told you that public high schools have taken people with political and social power and brought them together, to the exclusion of other people, would you celebrate those schools? Probably not. But that is essentially what a new Atlantic article does in extolling public high schools and attacking school choice. The piece, by English professor Amy Lueck,

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  • Do Psychopaths Have Feelings?

    Do Psychopaths Have Feelings?0

    Psychopaths have long captured the imagination. The names of famous psychopaths, such as Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, evoke a morbid curiosity. The crimes committed by these men are so vicious, so unfathomably cruel, that it’s impossible to imagine how someone could do such a thing. The severed heads kept as mementos in Bundy’s apartment

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