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  • School ‘Too Easy’ for a Surprising Number of Students, Study Finds (See Chart)

    School ‘Too Easy’ for a Surprising Number of Students, Study Finds (See Chart)0

    We talk a lot these days about how many students are doing poorly in school. For example, when it comes to 8th graders, the Nation’s Report Card tells us that: Only 1 in 3 are proficient in math 1 in 3 are proficient in reading 1 in 4 are proficient in civics 1 in 5

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  • Scholars Protest New AP U.S. History Standards

    Scholars Protest New AP U.S. History Standards0

    • June 12, 2015

    This week, an impressive list of scholars across the nation published a letter opposing the new framework for the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) exam in U.S. History. You can read the full letter here. As you may know, millions of U.S. high school students take an AP U.S. History course and exam each year in

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  • Scholars Propose Public Schooling for Babies to Fight Inequality

    Scholars Propose Public Schooling for Babies to Fight Inequality0

    In my years as a music teacher, I learned one very important thing. One could start teaching a child an instrument when they entered kindergarten, but the going would often be slow and the lessons a strain for both teacher and student. Once a child hit age seven, however, things began clicking at a much

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  • Scholars Defend Free Speech from ‘Dogmatism and Groupthink’

    Scholars Defend Free Speech from ‘Dogmatism and Groupthink’0

    Violent protest, no-platforming and public shaming are increasingly used on university campuses and on social media to shut down debate. So it is refreshing to see that two Ivy League professors at the opposite ends of the political spectrum have issued a declaration in favour of free speech. Robert P. George, a conservative professor of

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  • Scholar: White Guilt is Responsible for Our Toxic Politics

    Scholar: White Guilt is Responsible for Our Toxic Politics0

    AP released a poll this week showing that Americans are deeply divided.  Those seeking to better understand why might consider reading Shelby Steele’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Steele, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, argues that “white guilt” has created in the American system “a mock politics based on the pretense

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  • Scholar: U.S. Schools Producing the ‘Dumbest Generation’ Ever

    Scholar: U.S. Schools Producing the ‘Dumbest Generation’ Ever0

    Generally speaking, if there’s one thing that liberals and conservatives agree on it’s that America’s schools are in rough shape. A look at the results coming out of today’s schools only lends further credibility to this assertion. With the exception of economics, fewer than 40 percent of today’s high school seniors are proficient in any

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