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  • Study: It’s Not Your Imagination, Modern Kindergarten is More Demanding

    Study: It’s Not Your Imagination, Modern Kindergarten is More Demanding0

    It’s a question that’s been raised a number of times in recent months: are schools demanding more of young children these days? According to news out this morning, we no longer have to rack our brains to recall our own kindergarten experience for comparison’s sake. Research shows that today’s 5 year-olds are required to perform

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  • Study: Immaturity Being Mislabeled as ‘Mental Disorder’

    Study: Immaturity Being Mislabeled as ‘Mental Disorder’0

    Once upon a time – not so very long ago – a diagnosis of ADHD and its subsequent treatment with prescription drugs was accepted without much question. After all, the experts know best, right? But as the number of ADHD diagnoses have increased, parents, doctors, and even scientific studies seem to be questioning the wisdom

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  • Study: Homeschoolers Creaming Other Students on the SAT

    Study: Homeschoolers Creaming Other Students on the SAT0

    Last summer, George Washington University announced that it would no longer require students to submit their SAT or ACT scores as incoming freshmen. This move was made because the university “had concerns that students who could be successful at GW felt discouraged from applying if their scores were not as strong as their high school

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  • Study: Having Kids Helps You Live Longer

    Study: Having Kids Helps You Live Longer0

    • January 13, 2016

    ”You kids are killing me!” Many moms have been known to occasionally utter this line in frustration. But according to a new study conducted by two British Columbia universities, the opposite might be true—having children could extend a mother’s life. Conducted over 13 years, the study examined DNA samples of Guatemalan tribal women, tracking the

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  • Study: Half of Your ‘Friends’ are not Your Friends

    Study: Half of Your ‘Friends’ are not Your Friends0

    Friends are important. The people we choose to let into our circle often shape our ideas and character. In a well-known passage from the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle outlined the three primary types of friendships humans often make. Most would agree that Aristotle’s categories of friendship are not equal; some clearly are deeper than others. If

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  • Study: Grammar Nazis are Jerks

    Study: Grammar Nazis are Jerks0

    We’ve all been in one of those Facebook conversations battles that involves words flying off our fingers almost as fast as the brain can process them. When the battle turns nasty, we’ve likely been tempted, at one time or another, to demonstrate our intellectual superiority by mocking our counterpart’s poor grammar. (“Ha, you jackass! You

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