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Is School Curriculum Preventing Kids from Reading?0
- Education
- April 26, 2017
When I was five, I nabbed the book my mother was reading out loud and used my fledgling phonics to sound out the captions below the pictures. Since then, reading has been one of my favorite pastimes. But when I was in second grade, my English curriculum dictated a unit study on the Beatrix Potter
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The Benefits of Delayed Schooling 0
- Education
- April 25, 2017
If you are one of those parents who decided to delay your child’s schooling, or forgo it altogether, you have plenty of company. According to Education Week, in the years 2008-2010 fewer than half of U.S. children under age five attended preschool, and the number of stay-at-home-parents has been rising over the past decade. Additionally, there are more
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Why Teaching Proper Manners to Kids is More Important Today Than Ever 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2017
Is it me or are bad displays of manners and generally rude behavior all around us? It turns out I’m not the only one who thinks that. According to a recent survey by the Associated Press, 74 percent of Americans think manners and behavior have deteriorated in the United States over the past several decades.
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How J.R.R. Tolkien Responded to News of the Atomic Bomb 0
- History
- April 25, 2017
On Aug. 9, 1945, the day the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb—this one on the Japanese city of Nagasaki—J.R.R. Tolkien penned a letter to his son, Christopher Tolkien. Here is what he wrote: “The news today about ‘Atomic bombs’ is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent
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The Bad Manners of the Campus Left (Video)0
- Culture
- April 25, 2017
It snowed last Thursday (April 20) in Colorado. It’s not unusual for folks in the Centennial State to witness snow in April if the snowflakes are outside. But on this occasion, they appeared inside a university classroom, which, it turns out, is not unusual either. Having been invited by the local chapter of the student
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Neil Ty, The Scientism Guy 0
- Politics
- April 25, 2017
Neil deGrasse Tyson has released a new video aimed at a what he sees as a growing anti-intellectualism problem in the United States. It was released at the same time as the March for Science and many Earth Day demonstrations. He reflects on what he thinks made America great and what’s stalling progress today. Science used to be respected,
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