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  • President of Ivy League School ‘Concerned’ as Campus Reels Following Trump Win

    President of Ivy League School ‘Concerned’ as Campus Reels Following Trump Win0

    Columbia University President Lee Bollinger urged the student body and Columbia faculty to return to the school’s “fundamental values” following Donald Trump’s surprising presidential victory Tuesday, which triggered a firestorm on campus. “I am writing because of concerns for our community arising out of yesterday’s national election.  Certainly, not in my lifetime has there been

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  • Preserving Peace and Liberty During COVID Chaos

    Preserving Peace and Liberty During COVID Chaos0

    In time of crisis it’s inevitable that people begin to fear. It’s also likely that politicians will utilize that fear to coerce the populace into accepting further government control over their lives. Of course, the most recent stream of societal fear on which our leaders have capitalized is the COVID-19 pandemic. While the models have been inconsistent

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  • Preschoolers Increasingly Using Tablets without Supervision

    Preschoolers Increasingly Using Tablets without Supervision0

    Last December, while spending time with a classroom full of inner-city children, I struck up a conversation with 4-year-old twin boys. They proudly told me that they had each received a tablet for a Christmas gift. I was duly impressed – and alarmed. According to today’s New York Times, my alarm was justified, but my

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  • Preschooler Gets Week-long Suspension for Picking Up Shell Casing

    Preschooler Gets Week-long Suspension for Picking Up Shell Casing0

    Once upon a time, a 7-year-old boy was suspended from school for making his pop-tart into a gun. With the outrage that ensued over such a punishment, one would have thought that common sense would have returned by now in regards to harmless incidents with little boys and guns. Kristy Jackson’s 4-year-old son Hunter is

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  • Preschool Isn’t Giving Kids Enough Time to PLAY

    Preschool Isn’t Giving Kids Enough Time to PLAY0

    Our kids are failing at preschool and preschool is failing our kids. At least, that’s the sense one gets from Yale educator Dr. Erika Christakis. In a recent interview with NPR, Christiakis explained that today’s preschools are seeing a lot of problems: “[M]any young children are doing poorly in our early education settings. We’ve got

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  • Preschool CAN Help Kids—If it Includes This Element, Study Finds

    Preschool CAN Help Kids—If it Includes This Element, Study Finds1

    The last year hasn’t been very kind to ardent fans of universal preschool. Rather than help children get ahead in school as has been long promised, studies have shown that it can actually hurt. But a new study published by JAMA Pediatrics shows something a bit different. It examined a preschool program known as ParentCorps

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