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  • Teacher: Stroking Egos Does Nothing for Students. Raising Expectations Does.

    Teacher: Stroking Egos Does Nothing for Students. Raising Expectations Does.0

    Armed with a bachelor of science in elementary education, I charged into my career as a teacher. I was immediately exposed to students at three levels of public schools: A rather wealthy district with an average IQ of 120. A classic, middle-class school. A school that is best described as a mini United Nations. In

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  • Saying You’re Against Fascists Doesn’t Excuse Acting Like One

    Saying You’re Against Fascists Doesn’t Excuse Acting Like One0

    On March 23, 1919, Benito Mussolini, an Italian veteran of the Great War and a publisher of socialist newspapers, created the Fasci di Combattimento (commonly known as the Fascist Party) with the help of a few syndicalist friends. Nearly one hundred years later, the word fascism remains at the forefront of our political discourse even though fascism

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  • The Ongoing Decline of the American Male

    The Ongoing Decline of the American Male0

    “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”  ~ C.S. Lewis, The Abolition Of Man In the movie Falling Down, Bill Foster (Michael Douglas) is a defense engineer who has lost

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