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  • Journalist Explains Why Media Fails on Gun Control

    Journalist Explains Why Media Fails on Gun Control0

    Slate senior editor Rachael Larimore last week offered one of the smarter takes I’ve seen on why the media can never get the “healthy conversation” it wants on gun control: Gun-control advocates and their allies in the media will attack the gun-rights crowd as cold-hearted, stubborn, and out of touch. They will complain that no

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  • Research Implies the Gender Pay Gap Might be a Fiction

    Research Implies the Gender Pay Gap Might be a Fiction0

    It’s become conventional wisdom that women make just 79 percent of what men do for the same work. But is this actually true? The most recent evidence suggests that the gender wage gap is much smaller than researchers have suggested and may have little to do with discrimination. The report, written by a pair of

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  • Studying Shakespeare Brings School 40% Jump in Test Scores

    Studying Shakespeare Brings School 40% Jump in Test Scores0

    America’s student scores in reading, math, and science are nothing to write home about. At best, 21 percent of 4th-graders are proficient in math. At worst, only 21 percent of 12th-graders are proficient in science. Not a pretty picture. But a recent experiment at a British secondary school may offer a way for American schools

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