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  • Are Zero-Tolerance Policies Hurting the Good Kids?

    Are Zero-Tolerance Policies Hurting the Good Kids?0

    After tragic events such as the shootings at Columbine, Newtown, and other schools, education officials are understandably anxious to prevent more cases such as these. For that reason, many schools have tightened bans against weapons, violence, and other questionable behaviors. But do these bans sometimes go overboard and actually hurt kids who are good students,

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  • Are Your Friends Really Your Friends?

    Are Your Friends Really Your Friends?0

    • July 17, 2015

    To get by, we all need a little help from our friends. But in an age too often marked by superficiality, we often think about whether those we now call “friends” are actually our friends who will be with us in both fair and stormy weather. Turns out, the people in times past thought about

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  • Are Your Beliefs Rational? Four Tests to Evaluate Your Worldview

    Are Your Beliefs Rational? Four Tests to Evaluate Your Worldview1

    Theologian and philosopher Richard J. Mouw recounts once seeing a car with a Playboy bunny sticker on the rear window and a statue of the Virgin Mary on the front dashboard. He initially assumed that there was a reasonable explanation to the apparent contradiction: a Catholic wife and a brazen spouse, perhaps? Only later did

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  • Are You Unconsciously Racist?

    Are You Unconsciously Racist?0

    Academic psychology recently got a wake-up call. It’s not that the results of most psychological experiments are irreproducible. That’s hardly news. Instead, the highly acclaimed measure of unconscious racism, the Implicit-association Test (IAT), does not pass scientific muster. This revelation wouldn’t matter so much except that the IAT is already widely accepted. Many psychologists believe

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  • Are you smart enough to ace this mini SAT?

    Are you smart enough to ace this mini SAT?0

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  • Are You Overscheduling Your Child?

    Are You Overscheduling Your Child?0

    I often have a hard time saying “no” when it comes to social invitations and new opportunities.  It’s probably because of a fear of missing out or simply wanting to please others. This tendency has become increasingly problematic since becoming a parent. My 4 and 6-year-old daughters are bombarded with activity requests, birthday party invitations,

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