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  • U.S. Students Win the 2016 Math Olympiad

    U.S. Students Win the 2016 Math Olympiad0

    Earlier this week, news came out that a group of U.S. students had won the 2016 International Math Olympiad. As the Washington Post noted, such news is surprising, particularly since the U.S. team was the reigning champion from 2015, a title they finally snagged after losing for 21 years. I was encouraged reading about the

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  • U.S. Students WAY Behind Canadians in Latest PISA Test

    U.S. Students WAY Behind Canadians in Latest PISA Test0

    The United States showed its sports prowess by bringing home 121 medals from the Olympics this summer, comfortably trouncing the rest of the world. But the U.S. just can’t seem to do the same when it comes to the PISA exam, the Olympics of the education world. The release of the 2015 results shows the

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  • U.S. Students Cheat Far Less Than International Ones

    U.S. Students Cheat Far Less Than International Ones0

    Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on the prevalence of cheating at American colleges and universities. What I found surprising about the article was the fact that foreign students, particularly those from China, were found to be more likely to cheat than their American counterparts: “A Wall Street Journal analysis

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  • U.S. Students Are Using the Tactics of Kim Jong-un

    U.S. Students Are Using the Tactics of Kim Jong-un0

    North Korea is perhaps the most miserable country on earth. An almost 100 percent command economy combined with an extremely repressive regime has produced unimaginable suffering for its people. Dysfunctional mindsets have terrible consequences. Rather than seeing the North Korean mindset as a cautionary tale, some American students—abetted by college administrators—seem to have adopted it.

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  • U.S. Schools Using Greek and Latin to Boost Reading Skills

    U.S. Schools Using Greek and Latin to Boost Reading Skills0

    When The Nation’s Report Card released the 2015 reading scores for high schoolers, the public got confirmation of what it has long feared: student achievement has been gradually declining in recent decades.   But is it possible that those scores could be improved by reintroducing Greek and Latin into school curriculum?   According to a recent article

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  • U.S. Policy: Cheer Ukrainians On—and Keep Us Out!

    U.S. Policy: Cheer Ukrainians On—and Keep Us Out!0

    After Friday’s NATO summit refused to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the allies’ failure to “close the skies” to Russian military aircraft gives “a green light for further bombing of Ukrainian cities.”   “All the people who will die starting from this day will … die because of you,” said

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