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  • ‘Deadbeat Dad’ Stigma Should Be Brought Back

    ‘Deadbeat Dad’ Stigma Should Be Brought Back0

    “Deadbeat Dads”—absent fathers who don’t provide financial support for their children—are one of the most significant factors contributing to child poverty in America. So why do some single women have children outside of marriage when they know they will receive little to no support from the child’s father? A 2014 study from the University of Georgia and

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  • ‘Cultural Appropriation’ in Writing: Why Authors Aren’t Restricted to Experience

    ‘Cultural Appropriation’ in Writing: Why Authors Aren’t Restricted to Experience0

    Going to class rarely makes me feel tense, but this time—sitting in an upper-level writing ethics course—I was scared to speak up. My class was discussing cultural appropriation: whether it was right for majority-race authors to take on minority-race perspectives in their work. My classmates were almost universally against the idea, saying that a person

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  • ‘Critical Thinking’—Everyone Talks About It; No One Seems to Know What It Means

    ‘Critical Thinking’—Everyone Talks About It; No One Seems to Know What It Means7

    “Critical thinking” is one of the most popular buzz words used by the education system today. Unfortunately, as education expert Martin Cothran notes, modern educators have no idea how to actually define “critical thinking skills”: “Modern educators love to talk about ‘critical thinking skills,’ but not one in a hundred even knows what he means

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  • ‘Critical Thinking’ without Memorization? It Doesn’t Exist

    ‘Critical Thinking’ without Memorization? It Doesn’t Exist1

    To grow in knowledge, you need to have a foundation of memorized facts on which to build. Think about the study of history. If you haven’t memorized certain important dates, or rulers and their reigns, or the years of major periods, it’s difficult to adequately situate new historical information or analyses that you encounter. Another

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  • ‘Critical Theory’ Needs a Good Critique

    ‘Critical Theory’ Needs a Good Critique0

    By now, almost everybody is familiar with the phenomenon of “social justice warriors”, a.k.a. SJWs. Originally it was a pejorative moniker, but it seems that its bearers have recently adopted it as a badge of honor. SJWs embrace a “critique” of various forms of “oppression”: racism, “the patriarchy,” “heteronormativity,” and capitalist exploitation of the poor

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  • ‘Cosby’ Actor Reminds Us of the Dignity of Work

    ‘Cosby’ Actor Reminds Us of the Dignity of Work0

    After a decades-long career in film, theater, and education, actor Geoffrey Owens decided to take a part-time job as a cashier at Trader Joe’s. When customers and news outlets began posting photos of the actor bagging groceries, the resulting comments included a mix of mockery and what Owens describes as “job-shaming.” Fortunately, according to Owens, “the

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