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Report: What Today’s High School Seniors Are Reading 0
- Culture
- August 1, 2016
At the end of last year, Learnalytics (powered by Renaissance Learning) released their report titled What Kids Are Reading, 2016. The report was based on data from 9.8 million students in 31,327 schools during the 2014-15 school year. Among its interesting interactive features is one that allows you to see the most popular books read by
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What Stalin’s Great Terror can tell us about Russia today 0
- History
- July 29, 2016
Between the summer of 1936 and 1938, the regime of Joseph Stalin summarily executed 750,000 Soviet citizens without trial or any legal process. In the same period, more than a million others were sent to the labour camps of the Gulag, from where many would not return. In the history of a murderous regime, this
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Psychologist: 8 Ways Parents Can Get a Child to Read 0
- Education
- July 29, 2016
A friend of mine recently took her two-year-old son out of state to a family wedding for three weeks. When they returned, her son was talking in a fluent and skilled manner. After hearing him speak, a family member of mine noted in amazement how articulate the little boy had become. I laughed and said,
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What David Bowie’s Childhood Can Teach Us About Madness 0
- Entertainment
- July 29, 2016
We live in a crazy world which seems to be getting crazier by the minute. The reason is that the number of crazy people in the world is on the rise. Rates of suicide, mental illness, alienation, schizophrenia, loneliness, drug abuse and many forms of addiction are all seemingly out of control. Why are we
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What Quentin Tarantino can teach us about … Theology?0
- Culture
- July 29, 2016
The nature of philosophy, viewed from a certain angle, is to think about the deep meaning imbedded in ordinary things. Plato’s Socrates made his reputation by challenging people that he encountered to question their own assumptions about the meaning of various ordinary concepts that, upon reflection, prove to be deeper than they seem: justice in
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Walt Whitman’s (Surprising) Advice to Would-Be Writers 0
- Education
- July 29, 2016
Everyone wants to be a writer these days. This is normal. Writing involves sharing interesting thoughts, experiences, and stories. What’s not to like? The problem? Writing is, well, really hard. Ernest Hemingway, one of the best ever, once said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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Report: What Today’s High School Seniors Are Reading 0