Traditionally, Minnesota has been considered one of the top states in which to get a K-12 public education. The latest numbers regarding reading and math proficiency from the state’s Department of Education, though, serve as a warning that not all is well in the land of 10,000 lakes. Below is a chart using data from
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of America’s great poets. As the Main Historical Society states, “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a commanding figure in the cultural life of nineteenth-century America. Born in Portland, Maine, in 1807, he became a national literary figure by the 1850s, and a world- famous personality by the time of his death
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Having started my own business while I was still in high school, I was a bit miffed when I first discovered that I was going to have to pay taxes – at age 17. “But I can’t even vote yet!” I wailed to my father, “That’s like taxation without representation!” That little moment of drama
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If your child came home with a report card full of As and Bs every quarter, and regularly aced the yearly state standardized tests, you would naturally be a proud parent. But what if those As and Bs didn’t give a true picture and your child was actually failing miserably? Unfortunately, that is exactly what
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Many in the Intellectual Takeout audience express frustration about the apparent decline of morality in American society. When it comes to traditional morals, they charge, parents aren’t forming children in them, schools aren’t teaching them, and society isn’t adequately promoting them. So what happened? If it is in fact the case that traditional morality in
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The United States has one of the highest minimum drinking ages (21) of all countries. In case you didn’t know, the age of 21 was made uniform across the United States in 1984. In that year, President Ronald Reagan signed into law a bill that threatened to withhold federal highway funds from states that didn’t
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