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  • Schools Renormalize Raising Adults

    Schools Renormalize Raising Adults0

    Many of us are old enough to remember how childhood used to be. Our afternoons were spent outside playing with the neighborhood kids—no adults or cell phones in sight. Sometimes we got hurt, with occasional scraped knees or hurt egos, but we worked it out. We always knew we could go home. We had paper

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  • Schools Once Taught Biblical Literacy. Should They Do So Again?

    Schools Once Taught Biblical Literacy. Should They Do So Again?0

    Over the weekend, columnist Christine Emba commented on an interesting typo from The Wall Street Journal. As Emba explains, the WSJ quoted Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that the prophet Moses carried water from the country Iraq, rather than a regular rock, thus convoluting the famous miracle from Israel’s days in the wilderness. The mistake naturally

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  • Schools Offer ‘Emotional Support’ to Kids After Election

    Schools Offer ‘Emotional Support’ to Kids After Election0

    In many school districts across the country, the day after the election was greeted with tears, shock, and intensified efforts for support and counseling. St. Paul Public Schools, a district in Intellectual Takeout’s backyard, was one of those districts: “Supervisory counselors were slated to check in with school staff to identify any schools that are

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  • Schools Might Want to Reconsider the Push for Devices in the Classroom

    Schools Might Want to Reconsider the Push for Devices in the Classroom0

    It’s been a rough week for electronic devices. First there was the news that smartphones – with their continual news alerts and notifications – lead to increased inattentiveness and hyperactivity. Then there was the report that British teachers suspected parental phone usage as the reason behind the decline in the conversation ability of preschoolers.  

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  • Schools Have Created a Generation of Permit Pattys and BBQ Beckys

    Schools Have Created a Generation of Permit Pattys and BBQ Beckys0

    It seems like every week there’s a new Permit Patty (a grown woman who called the police on an eight-year-old selling water without a permit), BBQ Becky (another grown woman who called the police on a man BBQing without a permit), or someone who calls the police on a lemonade stand. Beyond being an irritant and

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  • Schools Banning Parents from Lunchtime Visits

    Schools Banning Parents from Lunchtime Visits0

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