Education Next just released its annual report detailing American attitudes toward all things school. As usual, the responses were revealing. One of the most revealing revolved around the public’s knowledge of teacher salaries. As the chart below shows, the general population believes an average teacher gets paid around $40,000. In reality, that salary is closer
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We all know Aesop’s fable about the Tortoise and the Hare but few of us really believe, in the real world, that slowcoaches like the tortoise have a cat in hell’s chance of beating those in life’s fast lane. Few really believe, with John Milton, that “they also serve who only stand and wait.” Those
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For those of us not located in or near high-profile protests such as those in Charlottesville, it’s easy to sit back, sigh at the problems in the world, and then push them to the back of our minds. Some, however, though removed from the situation by distance, heartily throw themselves into the fray. These individuals,
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I picked quite a time to go on a weekend trip to Charlottesville. What was supposed to be a nice getaway with my wife turned into a journey through the eye of a national media storm. On Saturday, clashes between “Unite the Right” protestors and “anti-fascist” counterprotesters at the foot of a Gen. Robert E.
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Few would disagree with the assertion that politics increasingly pervades our culture. Much of the politicization stems from the ideology of social justice, the idea that the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges in our society (and the world) is unequal and needs to be rectified. Christians increasingly are called to join this fight. “Justice
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Today’s counter-revolution against liberty is being fought on a number of fronts in American society. One is on college and university campuses across the country, where the ideology of “political correctness” is strangling freedom of speech and smothering intellectual controversy and debate. Critical to this campaign is the capture of language. It is through our
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