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  • Are Americans Clueless on Why We Celebrate July 4th?

    Are Americans Clueless on Why We Celebrate July 4th?0

    • June 30, 2016

    In the last few years, we’ve seen an extensive push to require high school students to pass a U.S. citizenship test in order to graduate. The most recent data from the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) suggests that this might not be such a bad idea. After testing 8th grade students in subjects such

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  • Are Americans Becoming Less Patriotic?

    Are Americans Becoming Less Patriotic?0

    In reading David Goldman’s recent column on Brexit, I was surprised to hear the following statistic: “An April 2016 survey found that two-thirds of Israeli 11th- and 12th-year students agreed with the statement, ‘It’s good to die for our country.’” ? But it’s true. The survey was commissioned by the daily newspaper Israel Hayom, and found

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  • Are American Schools Killing Interest in Reading?

    Are American Schools Killing Interest in Reading?0

    In a recent exchange of small talk, I asked a friend how the last school year had gone for his child. He replied that it had gone relatively well except for one thing. School, he explained, was killing his child’s interest in reading. When I asked how that was happening, he noted that his child

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  • Are American Schools Creating a ‘Stupefied’ Generation?

    Are American Schools Creating a ‘Stupefied’ Generation?2

    In recent months, it has been reported that studying and performing Shakespeare has dramatic effects on the academic performance of young students. In fact, one school in Australia found their exam scores increased more than 40 percentage points after Shakespeare lessons were incorporated into the curriculum. Because of these dramatic effects, I took notice of

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  • Are America’s Best Days Behind Us?

    Are America’s Best Days Behind Us?0

    America’s best days might be behind us, argues Eduardo Porter in a piece for the New York Times. According to Porter, the new book The Rise and Fall of American Growth by economist Robert J. Gordon makes a convincing case that American growth, prosperity, and innovation are significantly slowing down. So much so that today’s

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  • Are All Men Created Equal?

    Are All Men Created Equal?3

    Ideology is political religion, said the conservative sage Russell Kirk. And what is the defining dogma of the political religion, or ideology, of America in 2022? Is it not that, “All men are created equal”? Yet, as with every religion, a basic question needs first to be asked and answered about this defining dogma of liberal

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