The United States showed its sports prowess by bringing home 121 medals from the Olympics this summer, comfortably trouncing the rest of the world. But the U.S. just can’t seem to do the same when it comes to the PISA exam, the Olympics of the education world. The release of the 2015 results shows the
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Tim Allen has become one of TV’s biggest stars by embracing his Everyman qualities. The former Home Improvement actor is now in his sixth season on ABC’s Last Man Standing, a show that could have been a spinoff of his Tim “the Tool Man” character. Like Tim Taylor, Mike Baxter is a “man’s man”: plain-speaking,
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When commentators discuss issues such as the recent PISA exam, they focus largely on results, including which country came in first and whether or not scores fell or increased since the previous assessment. What they often overlook, however, is content. The PISA exam website offers a glimpse into this content, however, so I decided to
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By now most people have probably heard about BuzzFeed’s odd story on Chip and Joanna Gaines, co-hosts of HGTV’s hit show Fixer Upper. In case you somehow missed it, Brandon Ambrosino offers a tidy summary of BuzzFeed writer Kate Aurthur’s 1,200-word story at the Washington Post: Two popular celebrities might oppose same-sex marriage because the pastor of the
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A growing number of students and adults today are expressing a desire to learn Latin. For over a thousand years, this ancient language was one of the building blocks of Western education. But in recent decades, there has been a concerted effort to remove Latin from curricula in schools across America and Europe. This
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