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  • Social-Emotional Learning Is Hurting Students

    Social-Emotional Learning Is Hurting Students1

    Social-emotional learning (SEL) has been in vogue in education circles for decades. Following its precepts, teachers, counselors, and administrators encourage students to look inward and focus on their feelings. The result? A generation of young people who can’t stop thinking about their emotions, leaving them incredibly fragile. But that’s not what many of the experts

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  • Social Security is Sinking

    Social Security is Sinking0

    Via Money.CNN: “In an annual report released Thursday, trustees of the government’s two largest entitlement programs — Social Security and Medicare — urged lawmakers to act quickly to assure Americans they’ll be able to get their full retirement benefits. The trustees projected that the Social Security trust fund will be tapped out by 2034. While

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  • Social Security Is a Terrible ‘Investment’

    Social Security Is a Terrible ‘Investment’0

    Social Security, the primary retirement savings tool and biggest tax for millions of Americans, is a bad deal, critics contend. They argue that mandatory Social Security is a poor investment because it only provides an average annual income of some $17,000. This is a lousy return on the decades of tax payments, critics contend. They

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  • Social Security Has Not Been “Looted”

    Social Security Has Not Been “Looted”0

    The newly released Social Security Trustees Report describes serious fiscal issues with the program and stresses that it should be reformed soon, or the situation will become much worse. However, public support for reform is impeded by a common fiction that inflames debate and distracts from the roots of the problem. What the Report Says

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  • Social Psychology Suggests ‘March for Our Lives’ Is Unlikely to Change Anything. Here’s Why.

    Social Psychology Suggests ‘March for Our Lives’ Is Unlikely to Change Anything. Here’s Why.0

    Like many recent political movements, March for Our Lives was marked with grandstanding, emotional appeals and the moral outrage that have come to define modern political protests. The mainstream media promises, however, that “this time, it’s different,” and this march for gun control (let’s be honest about its intentions) will change America and eventually end

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  • Social Promotion in U.S. High Schools Reaches an All-Time High!

    Social Promotion in U.S. High Schools Reaches an All-Time High!0

    There is much rejoicing in recent headlines, for the U.S. high school graduation rate has reached a new high. NPR reports: “For the fourth straight year, the U.S. high school graduation rate has improved to an all-time high of 82 percent in the 2013-2014 school year, the Department of Education announced today. Achievement gaps have

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