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  • Should We Stop Segregating Students by Age?

    Should We Stop Segregating Students by Age?1

    It’s commonly believed by Americans that allowing students to skip grades is unhealthy for their social and emotional development. However, an article in this month’s Scientific American suggests the opposite. The article describes the work of the “Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth” (SMPY), which over the past 45 years has identified 5,000 gifted individuals and

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  • Will de Blasio’s Universal Pre-K Hurt Kids Instead of Help?

    Will de Blasio’s Universal Pre-K Hurt Kids Instead of Help?0

    Given the recent interest in starting universal preschool programs in states and cities around the country, it’s perhaps no surprise that The Atlantic highlighted the one begun by New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. As The Atlantic describes it, de Blasio’s preschool program is the great equalizer which gives the same goods and services

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  • Why Modern Education is Doomed to Die

    Why Modern Education is Doomed to Die0

    One of the great transitions in education in the past fifty years has been the increased emphasis on the so-called STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – and a corresponding diminishing of the place of the traditional liberal arts or humanities, especially literature, history and philosophy. This has been due in part to

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