Currently, the news media is praising an engineering student for his letter expressing empathy for female engineering students. The Huffington Post headline read “Male Engineering Student Perfectly Explains Why Female Classmates Aren’t His Equals.” The Today Show described the letter as “humble.” Here’s a copy of the letter, penned by Jared Mauldin of Eastern
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Yesterday I ran across a Washington Post piece entitled, “I love my boyfriend, but I never want to get married.” In it, author Rachel Bussel describes how she and her partner of four years have lived as husband and wife in every imaginable experience – except for the wedding ceremony. Furthermore, Ms. Bussel insists that
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Recent reports are indicating that Americans have more money in their pockets than in recent years, largely thanks to falling gas prices. (30 bucks for a tank of gas rather than the 60 it was a couple of years ago? Yes, please!) So where are these pennies from heaven going? According to the Wall Street
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The last decade has seen a rapid rise of ADHD diagnoses in the U.S. A new study released by the Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis leads me to wonder if starting children in school at earlier ages may be one cause behind it. The study examined Danish children and the age at which they
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City living seems to be growing in popularity in recent years, undoubtedly driven by the many conveniences life in the metro can bring. But not every aspect of city life is advantageous, particularly when it comes to education. The Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) just released a new analysis on the state of education
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That’s the claim made by George Monbiot in a column for The Guardian entitled “The Age of Loneliness is Killing Us.” He explains: “Three months ago we read that loneliness has become an epidemic among young adults. Now we learn that it is just as great an affliction of older people. A study
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