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  • How Praising Children Teaches Them Not to Learn

    How Praising Children Teaches Them Not to Learn0

    Talk to a youth sport’s coach and he might say today’s kids are un-coachable. Ask an exasperated teacher and she might say today’s kids don’t know how to learn. Listen to parents and they might say they have tried building their child’s confidence but to no avail. Famed Stanford University psychology professor Carol Dweck wants us

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  • Forever Free: The Importance of Literacy

    Forever Free: The Importance of Literacy0

    “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury One way to get people to stop reading books is to fail to teach them to read proficiently. Permit me to digress from that idea for a moment. Recently a correspondent sent me a link to

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  • Eliminating Food Deserts Doesn’t Help Poor Americans

    Eliminating Food Deserts Doesn’t Help Poor Americans0

    In the U.S., rich people tend to eat a lot healthier than poor people. Because poor diets cause obesity, Type II diabetes and other diseases, this nutritional inequality contributes to unequal health outcomes. The richest Americans can expect to live 10-15 years longer than the poorest. Many think that a key cause of nutritional inequality

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