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  • The Best Way to Teach Kids to Hate History? Rely Only on Textbooks

    The Best Way to Teach Kids to Hate History? Rely Only on Textbooks0

    Whenever I hear that only 12 percent of American students are proficient in history, I have to shake my head in amazement. How in the world can so few students be proficient in a subject that’s so fascinating? Historian David McCullough may have an answer to that question. Several years ago he noted that contemporary

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  • The Best Way to Teach History to Children

    The Best Way to Teach History to Children0

    When an old person dies, a library burns to the ground.                                 – Variation on an African proverb In the mid-1990s, Mrs. Irene Harrison (1890-1999) from Akron, Ohio stayed in my bed-and-breakfast in Western North Carolina. On her last visit,

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  • The Best Way to Get Boys Reading

    The Best Way to Get Boys Reading0

    While at a gathering of friends several months ago, I stopped to chat for a few minutes with a twelve-year-old boy whom I’ll call Davy. Although the youngest in a family of all girls, I knew Davy was all boy. He liked guns and animals and all manner of typical boy subjects. Because of this,

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  • The Best Way to Fight Political Hysteria

    The Best Way to Fight Political Hysteria0

    The week after Halloween, my first-grade grandson asked if I was afraid of monsters. “Only human ones,” I said. The confusion on his face alerted me to shift gears. “No, I’m not afraid of monsters. The older you get, the less you are afraid of monsters.” He paused, then asked: “Are you afraid of tomatoes?”

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  • The Best Way to Establish Your Authority as a Parent

    The Best Way to Establish Your Authority as a Parent0

    Children need to respect their parents’ authority. This is an essential part of a healthy upbringing – particularly when children are very young. There are many reasons for respecting parental authority. For starters, it facilitates the smooth functioning of the home. For example, if I ask my five-year-old daughter to clean up her toys, she

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  • The Best Political Ad of 2016

    The Best Political Ad of 20160

    This is being acclaimed as the best TV advertisement of the 2016 election. Not for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate for the US Presidency. Not for Donald Trump, the GOP candidate. For Gerald Daugherty, the incumbent County Commissioner for Travis County, Precinct 3, in Austin, Texas. County Commissioners do boring stuff like keeping down taxes,

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