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Study Concludes Women Are Better Doctors Than Men (to Great Applause)0
- Culture
- December 29, 2016
Anyone who takes a college critical thinking course learns about the fallacies or common errors in reasoning. One fallacious form of scientific reasoning is confirmation bias. That is, when someone collects evidence, they immediately interpret it in a way that confirms their prior beliefs or theories. Many of us are prone it, but what is
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Students’ Test Scores Unchanged After Decades of Federal Intervention in Education0
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- December 11, 2019
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Students: Midterms, Low Grades Infringe on Our Activism0
- Culture
- May 27, 2016
The Week reports that more than 1,300 “students at Oberlin College are asking the school to put academics on the back burner so they can better turn their attention to activism.” Particularly offensive to students are midterms essays (they’d prefer a conversation with their professor, they say) and grades below a C. Now, one might
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Students Wearing Trump Shirts Censored in School Yearbook0
- Culture
- June 12, 2017
Via the Washington Post: “When 17-year-old Grant Berardo wanted to wear a political T-shirt on school picture day in October, his parents told him it was fine. His “TRUMP Make America Great Again!” shirt did not violate the dress code at Wall Township High School in central New Jersey because it did not reference drugs
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Students Want Prof Fired for Questioning ‘Diversity’0
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- November 3, 2016
Anthony Esolen, a professor at Providence College and translator of classic works, is under fire for writing an essay critical of diversity. The essay, entitled “My College Succumbed to the Totalitarian Diversity Cult,” was published in Crisis Magazine in September. You can read it here. Done reading? If so, you might be wondering what all the fuss
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Students Today: Minds without ‘Furniture’0
- Education
- July 25, 2016
In my reading on past education philosophy, I have repeatedly encountered the phrase “furniture of the mind.” Perhaps the first instance of it is found in one of the most famous educational documents in history—“The Yale Report of 1828”—where the faculty of Yale College (now University) said the following: “The two great points to be
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