German-born Anne Frank is surely the most unusual best-selling teenage author of the 20th century. She penned but one volume, a diary, while hiding from the Nazis during the German occupation of the Netherlands. “How wonderful it is,” she wrote in that tiny hideaway, “that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve
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The News Story: New Recommendations for Depression Screening in Primary Care The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is considering a new standard recommending that all adults be routinely screened for depression during visits to their primary care provider, according to a story released by the American Academy of Family Physicians. According to the AAFP,
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We walk the streets rarely making eye contact with those we brush up against. We zoom along our freeways, only occasionally glancing at the driver beside us. We sit on the metro and hope we don’t need to make conversation. We wave at our neighbors but rarely talk to them. We are surrounded by people
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Have you asked a high school junior lately what they’re reading in school? According to a report coming out of New York, it’s not Shakespeare… it’s… The Three Little Pigs?! “The report from the state Education Department says the classic children’s fairy tale was just one of several ridiculously easy reading assignments uncovered at Landmark
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There’s a growing consensus that the curriculum of many American high schools has been dumbed down, and that we need to expect more of our students. In response, some schools are returning to a curriculum that approximates the rigor of times past. One is Trinity School at River Ridge – a private school in Minnesota
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Take a look at the trend of births to unwed mothers in America since 1940: And now, more than half of all births to millennial women (of all races) in America take place out of wedlock. Should we be worried about this trend and the decline of child bearing within marriage? Well, statistically speaking, parents
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