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  • The Biden Administration Just (Quietly) Scaled Back Student Loan ‘Cancellation’

    The Biden Administration Just (Quietly) Scaled Back Student Loan ‘Cancellation’1

    In August, the White House announced that most federal student loan borrowers would be eligible for forgiveness. Most borrowers who didn’t receive a Pell Grant would be eligible for up to $10,000 of forgiveness, while borrowers who did receive a Pell Grant—a type of financial aid for low-income undergrads—would be eligible for up to $20,000. In what

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  • The Best Writing Program? Math and Latin

    The Best Writing Program? Math and Latin0

    In her recent article at Intellectual Takeout, Annie Holmquist gives three reasons why college freshman can’t write, a problem that is the topic of constant complaint of college professors. Her reasons are good: They are not receiving good instruction in reasoning and in writing; they don’t receive constructive criticism in school; and they are the

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  • The Best Writer You’ve Never Heard Of (And His Message for Modern Readers)

    The Best Writer You’ve Never Heard Of (And His Message for Modern Readers)3

    Of the writers you’ve never heard of, George Gissing may be the best. His prose is beautiful, and his plotlines are exquisitely painful. But beyond the sheer artistry of his writing, he has much to teach the modern reader, both in his writing and through the tragedy of his life. Gissing’s academic career began with

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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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