Have you ever wondered what the government knows about your child? According to an article in today’s Washington Post they may know a lot more than you realize… and that knowledge may negatively affect your child’s future. “Most student data is gathered at school via multiple routes; either through children’s online usage or information provided
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On the whole, it would appear to be for the best that the great majority of human beings should go on living in the place in which they were born. —T.S. Eliot, Notes towards the Definition of Culture Americans have never learned to cherish permanence. Alexis de Tocqueville once said that an American will build
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I’ve ignored most of the controversy over Starbucks dropping holiday-themed designs on its cups because, well, it’s stupid, and probably media-fabricated. It’s not that I don’t lament the decline of communally celebrated feasts; it’s just that I wasn’t really depending on a Seattle-based coffee company to revive the sanctity of Christmas… with cups decorated with
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According to various news sources, the police at the University of Missouri are asking students to report “hateful and hurtful speech”. Here’s the document reported by The Daily Caller: As the police admit, hateful and hurtful speech “are not crimes”. Yet, they also indicate that the University of Missouri can take disciplinary action. And here
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The opening episode of South Park’s season 19 was “Stunning and Brave”. It’s just about perfect for the current chaos in many of America’s institutions of learning. Here’s the description: “There is a new principal at the helm of South Park Elementary. He forces the boys to confront the damage they’ve done through their history
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Every few months it seems that another story pops up concerning some child’s confusing Common Core math homework. For examples, check out the three famous ones below: As authors Katharine Beals and Barry Garelick explain in The Atlantic, homework questions such as these are an attempt to have children understand the concepts behind
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