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  • A 4-Day School Week? Research Shows Possible Benefits.

    A 4-Day School Week? Research Shows Possible Benefits.0

    Could the traditional 5-day school week actually be a drain on students and teachers? That’s a subject explored in a recent study published by MIT Press Journals. A number of schools in Colorado have made the switch from a 5 to a 4-day school week in recent years, largely in an effort to manage budget

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  • A 200 Year-Old Warning about Education in America

    A 200 Year-Old Warning about Education in America3

    • July 20, 2015

    It was 1803, and America was just coming into its own. But Princeton professor Samuel Miller (1769-1850) saw trouble on the horizon in an increasingly utopian attitude toward education. In A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century he wrote: “On the subject of Education, the century under review has given birth to a doctrine, which, though noticed

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  • A 2,500-Year-Old Warning to America

    A 2,500-Year-Old Warning to America0

    Herodotus’ Histories is considered the first work of history produced in the Western world. Written around 450 B.C., it serves as a valuable source of information about the civilizations and cultures of the ancient world, and until recently, has been an important fixture in Western students’ education. The text of the Histories (in English translation)

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  • A 1st-Century Roman Teacher on How to Raise a Genius

    A 1st-Century Roman Teacher on How to Raise a Genius0

    We often marvel at the handful of students who get top ACT scores and land scholarships at Ivy League universities. And with good cause, for it seems the number of geniuses these days are few and far between. But could we have a lot more “geniuses” in this country than we realize? That seems to

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  • A 1944 Warning About Genetically Edited Babies

    A 1944 Warning About Genetically Edited Babies0

    • November 26, 2018

    I saw the headline scroll across the marquee as I drove by the public radio station this morning: gene-edited babies are officially a thing.   The news comes out of China at the hands of researcher He Jiankui, who genetically edited a pair of twin girls. According to The Associated Press, Jiankui is well-meaning and

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  • A 1913 Prescription for ‘Toxic Masculinity’

    A 1913 Prescription for ‘Toxic Masculinity’0

    If recent headlines are any indication, it seems that masculinity is destined to be the word of the year. Between shaving commercials, official guidelines from the American Psychological Association, and viral videos depicting “disrespectful” teen boys, the idea of what it means to be a decent man has become rather confused. This confusion about manhood

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