Ethical challenges to Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act: ? Abortion ? Euthanasia ? Sterilisation ? Contraception And, forging ahead, Obamacare may be forcing doctors to perform gender transition procedures. Last year the Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an interpretation of Obamacare’s Section 1557. This forbade discrimination on the basis of “sex”.
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Over the weekend, The Washington Post carried an interesting article on the national surge in students taking advanced placement (AP) courses. Profiling a student named Maria Flores, The Post reported: “Maria Flores was not a strong writer, and she knew that rhetorical essay assignments and analyzing complex texts would be a huge challenge. That’s why
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Given the recent interest in starting universal preschool programs in states and cities around the country, it’s perhaps no surprise that The Atlantic highlighted the one begun by New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. As The Atlantic describes it, de Blasio’s preschool program is the great equalizer which gives the same goods and services
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One of the great transitions in education in the past fifty years has been the increased emphasis on the so-called STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – and a corresponding diminishing of the place of the traditional liberal arts or humanities, especially literature, history and philosophy. This has been due in part to
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Last week, I bought an item at the store, swiped my card, and then signed my name on the electronic notepad at the register. But while such an occasion is a regular occurrence, I came away with a unique experience: my electronic signature actually looked normal. The thought passed through my mind that technology must
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It’s commonly believed by Americans that allowing students to skip grades is unhealthy for their social and emotional development. However, an article in this month’s Scientific American suggests the opposite. The article describes the work of the “Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth” (SMPY), which over the past 45 years has identified 5,000 gifted individuals and
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