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Ladies, You Need to Stop Husband-Shaming 0
- Culture
- May 13, 2016
Over the years, in posts on Facebook groups for mothers, I’ve seen my share of women talking smack about their husbands. Writing to hundreds (sometimes thousands) of other women, many of whom they don’t know, wives will unburden themselves about the latest insensitive things their husbands have done. The complaints run the gamut from real
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Atticus Finch’s Critique of the Public Education System 0
- Education
- May 13, 2016
In American schools, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is usually read in 8th or 9th grade. As such, because students at that grade level have only had so much life experience, some of its more penetrating social critiques are often missed. The other day I came across one of these critiques. The significance of
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Schools Might Want to Reconsider the Push for Devices in the Classroom 0
- Culture
- May 13, 2016
It’s been a rough week for electronic devices. First there was the news that smartphones – with their continual news alerts and notifications – lead to increased inattentiveness and hyperactivity. Then there was the report that British teachers suspected parental phone usage as the reason behind the decline in the conversation ability of preschoolers.
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How to Actually ‘Make America Great’0
- Culture
- May 13, 2016
As an angry young man, back in my native England, I thought that the world could be fixed through the power of politics. As a not very angry and not very young man, now living in the United States, I have long since abandoned the belief that politics can fix the world. With this disillusioned
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Expert: ‘Focus on Diversity’ Is Causing British Universities to Decline 0
- Culture
- May 13, 2016
Should university admissions be purely meritocratic, based on students’ demonstrated academic ability? Or, should students with better academic profiles be passed over for admission in order to fill diversity quotas? These are some of the tough questions that British citizens may be asking themselves after a controversial article in The Telegraph last week. The piece reports that
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We Need to Stop Pushing Everyone Toward College 0
- Culture
- May 13, 2016
Last year, Pew Charitable Trusts reported that eight in ten Americans are in debt. Much of that debt stems from home mortgage loans, but as a new chart from Slate demonstrates, the last ten years have also seen an explosion in debt from student loans. Such an explosion is not surprising considering the push to
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Ladies, You Need to Stop Husband-Shaming 0