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Is Marriage the Key to Higher Grad Rates?0
- Education
- September 16, 2016
In recent years, individual school districts and states as a whole wait with breathless anticipation to see their graduation rates. If rates go up, districts congratulate themselves on the implementation of their new policies. If rates go down, the declines are quickly chalked up to the need for more funds. But as a new study
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What Most People Don’t Understand About Love 0
- Culture
- September 15, 2016
All the problems of the world could be solved if we simply remember that all we need is love. Love! Love is all we need. Is it as simple as John Lennon suggests in his iconic Beatles anthem? The answer is yes. Emphatically, yes! The problem is not with the truth of the mantra but
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Univ. of Chicago Faculty Strike Back, Defend ‘Safe Spaces’0
- September 15, 2016
In August, Intellectual Takeout obtained and published a letter University of Chicago Dean of Students John Jay Ellison sent to students explaining the university’s commitment to intellectual l freedom and inquiry. The letter, which told students not to expect safe spaces and trigger warnings, quickly went viral. This week, several University of Chicago faculty struck
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Why It’s Good For Children to Work Alongside Their Parents 0
- Culture
- September 15, 2016
I ran across a short video from The Perennial Plate the other day which gave me pause. The video featured a woman named Ana Navarro who operates a ranch in Colorado with the help of her children. As the video shows and Navarro attests, the family does not have a lot of material wealth. Yet
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Psychologist: College Students Today ‘Less Resilient’0
- Education
- September 15, 2016
“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being
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Harvard Prof: U.S. Productivity ‘Shutting Down’0
- Economics
- September 15, 2016
Harvard Business School released a report this month and the findings are, well, not good. Here is the gist of the report, titled “Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided“: While a slow recovery is underway, fundamentally weak U.S. economic performance continues and is leaving many Americans behind. The federal government has made no meaningful progress
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Is Marriage the Key to Higher Grad Rates?0