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  • What’s in a Name: The Brandon Phenomenon

    What’s in a Name: The Brandon Phenomenon0

    “Let’s go, Brandon!”            By now, most readers know the meaning hidden in those three words. If you don’t, Google them or ask an acquaintance. I’m trying to avoid the F-bomb here.            Throughout the fall, football stadiums across the country have reverberated with that chant and

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  • What’s Driving the Rise in ADHD?

    What’s Driving the Rise in ADHD?0

    Ever feel that the number of children diagnosed with ADHD is growing? According to today’s Washington Post, that feeling is more than imagined: “A study published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry on Tuesday shows a surprising 55 percent increase in prevalence of diagnoses among girls — from 4.7 percent to 7.3 percent from 2003 to 2011.

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  • What’s Driving the Ballooning Support Staff in Public Schools?

    What’s Driving the Ballooning Support Staff in Public Schools?0

    In the animated graphic below, University of Michigan economics professor Mark Perry charts the ballooning nature of public school staff, students, and spending since 1970. As Perry explains, the student population has increased by 10 percent in the last 50 years. The number of teachers has increased by nearly 60 percent in that same period.

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  • What’s Behind The WHO’s Lockdown Mixed-Messaging

    What’s Behind The WHO’s Lockdown Mixed-Messaging0

    Last week, in a major departure from months of pro-lockdown messaging, Britain’s envoy to the WHO Dr. David Nabarro called for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies as a “primary method” of controlling COVID19. “I want to say it again: we in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as

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  • What’s Behind the Explosion of Pet Costumes?

    What’s Behind the Explosion of Pet Costumes?0

    I did a double take reading a headline on The Conversation the other day. It appears that pets plus Halloween makes for a lucrative enterprise: Americans are expected to spend US $8.8 billion on candy, costumes and decorations this year – or $86 for every person who plans to celebrate. That includes a half a

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  • What’s Behind the Exodus of Black Students from Public Schools?

    What’s Behind the Exodus of Black Students from Public Schools?0

    For a number of years, public education has been of utmost importance to those in the black community. This is partially because black access to equal public education was a hard-won victory procured by the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. But lately, black families appear to be questioning whether public schooling is

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