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  • Test How ‘Culturally Literate’ You Are

    Test How ‘Culturally Literate’ You Are1

    E.D. Hirsch, professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, has become famous for his advocacy of “cultural literacy.” According to Hirsch, “To be culturally literate is to possess the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world.” He emphasized that a “shared, canonical knowledge is inherently necessary to a literate

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  • Terrifying Beauty Makes no Sense

    Terrifying Beauty Makes no Sense0

    In our post-modern world, beauty is often said to be in the eye of the beholder. And, yet, I have little doubt that one could pull together Muslims, Atheists, Christians, Buddhists, and others to view a sunset and all who viewed it would agree in its beauty. The same likely may be said for viewing

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  • Terrific: District Calls Teacher ‘Negligent’ for Trying to Break Up a Fight

    Terrific: District Calls Teacher ‘Negligent’ for Trying to Break Up a Fight0

    A week ago, I asked an out-of-state friend how her job as a teacher was going. “Terrible!” she responded. “The entire school is chaotic and out of control.” She went on to explain that the school’s students have caught on to the fact that there are no serious consequences when teachers send them to administration

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  • Tennessee Admits One Third of High School Grads Didn’t Complete Their Coursework

    Tennessee Admits One Third of High School Grads Didn’t Complete Their Coursework0

    In recent years, schools, educators, and other policy makers have pointed to the nation’s rising graduation rates as proof that America is fixing its education problems and is on the path to prosperity. But some have wondered if those graduation rates are artificially propped up by dumbed down standards. That suspicion was affirmed over the

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  • Ten Tips for Men to Survive Valentine’s Day

    Ten Tips for Men to Survive Valentine’s Day1

    Valentine’s Day: The holiday that men fear and women adore. Recently, I was speaking with my brother about Valentine’s Day. He recounted that several years ago he suggested to his wife of 40 years that they ignore Valentine’s Day, telling her that the day “was for the young and they were old.” I will leave

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  • Ten Terrifying Facts About East Germany’s Stasi Surveillance

    Ten Terrifying Facts About East Germany’s Stasi Surveillance14

    To maintain power for 40 years while their people starved and plotted to escape, the Communist Party had to get very good at controlling people and undermining anti-state activists. But outright street violence and assassinations weren’t good for the Party image, so the Ministry for State Security got creative. Better known as the Stasi (the

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