Have you ever considered what type of school you would send your child to if you didn’t have to worry about cost? That question is one which EdChoice annually asks the American public. This year, they found that 83 percent of parents have a child attending public schools, but only 28 percent would keep that
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For the last year and a half, Americans have watched political contenders fly around the country explaining why he or she should be president of the United States. But it was not always done this way (and I’m not talking about airplanes). For the first half-century of our republic’s existence, one was not supposed to
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Earlier this year, Texas teacher Brandy Young told parents she would not be giving homework throughout the year. Instead, Ms. Young encouraged families to spend homework time doing things together. The note went viral, suggesting that American parents are not big fans of homework. Neither, it seems, are parents in Spain. They have designated every
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The title of this essay offers news that is untrue. It satirizes the truth in order to make a critical point. Recently the Paterno Fellows Program announced an essay contest on ethical values, which is open to all Penn State University students. The program is named in honor of Joe Paterno, who was an English
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After years of sales growth, major publishers reported a fall in their e-book sales for the first time this year, introducing new doubts about the potential of e-books in the publishing industry. A Penguin executive even admitted recently that the e-books hype may have driven unwise investment, with the company losing too much confidence in
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Anthony Esolen, a professor at Providence College and translator of classic works, is under fire for writing an essay critical of diversity. The essay, entitled “My College Succumbed to the Totalitarian Diversity Cult,” was published in Crisis Magazine in September. You can read it here. Done reading? If so, you might be wondering what all the fuss
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