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  • NAACP Leader: Lenient Discipline is Hurting Black Students

    NAACP Leader: Lenient Discipline is Hurting Black Students0

    In recent years, there’s been a trend to reduce school suspensions of minority students, particularly those of African-American descent. According to Pacific Education Group, a consulting firm hired by many schools across the country, many of the discipline problems which result in suspensions are the fault of teachers who exhibit their “white privilege” in the

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  • Myths About Cuba Persist on the Left and Right

    Myths About Cuba Persist on the Left and Right0

    Recent debates over what to do about Cuba remain afflicted by myths, many going back to the origins of the Castros’ Communist regime. There have generally been two conflicting accounts of how this regime was established and its relation to the Cuban past, and both may need to be corrected. Some of the most childish

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  • Mythbusters Star Argues That Schools Should Bring Back Shop Class

    Mythbusters Star Argues That Schools Should Bring Back Shop Class0

    • July 29, 2015

    With the growth of standardized testing in recent decades, America’s education system has increasingly removed classes in the visual, performing, and mechanical arts. In the latter category, the iconic shop class of America’s educational past is now a rarity in today’s schools.  But, if this viral newspaper clipping below is any indication, Americans want shop

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  • Myth: Medievals Thought the World was Flat

    Myth: Medievals Thought the World was Flat0

    Science got started much earlier than you think. Consider the example of the sphericity of the earth: “There never was a period of ‘flat earth darkness’ among scholars (regardless of how many uneducated people may have conceptualized our planet both then and now). Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted

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  • Myth and Materialism

    Myth and Materialism3

    I’ll never forget reading my first chemistry textbook. The thesis of the introduction was that everything can be explained by chemistry. Everything. From the weather to plants to human thought and human behavior. I remember feeling particular disgust when the textbook claimed that what we call love is actually just the interaction and activation of

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  • My University Treated Me Like a Criminal Over a Joke

    My University Treated Me Like a Criminal Over a Joke0

    For the past six years, I have taught an undergraduate course on international economics at Johns Hopkins University. Most of my students thought it was a very good course. So I was shocked when, on December 6, 2016, I was met at the door of my classroom by Johns Hopkins security personnel and barred from entering.

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