Have you ever looked at the range of courses your child can take in high school and had the sense that something was missing? For many parents, that missing item is one that was a favorite course in high school: shop class. The reasons for the disappearance of shop class are simple: high stakes testing
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Why do people express so much moral outrage? A pair of academic researchers recently asked this question and discovered “that moral outrage at third-party transgressions is sometimes a means of reducing guilt over one’s own moral failings and restoring a moral identity.” The paper is (appropriately) titled, “A cleansing fire: Moral outrage alleviates guilt and
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A few months ago, neuroscientist Debra Soh declared that trendy attempts to raise children in a gender-neutral environment are downright “futile.” Soh explained: “[S]o long as children are given the option to take part in activities they find interesting, there’s nothing wrong with being gender-typical.” But according to a recent Dartmouth Review interview with philosopher
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This week saw Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday come and go. And Saturday is Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. So we’ve well and truly entered Lent. This year’s theme for the world-famous parade of LGBTQI sexualities is “creating equality”. How do the BTQI crowds feel about being squeezed out of the name of the
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CIA analysts have been reading Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes and Jean-Paul Sartre for years. The reasons might astound you. In a recent article in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Gabriel Rockhill, a Philosophy professor at Villanova University, explains why the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a longstanding interest in post-World War
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One of the most important things to consider when buying a house is the quality of the grocery district. As the name implies, the grocery district determines which public grocery store you and your family get to use. District maps are drawn by the government to ensure each grocery store has an appropriate number of
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