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New Report: Evidence for Pre-K is Sketchy at Best 0
- Education
- April 12, 2016
A couple months ago, the Brookings Institution came out with a paper questioning the evidence on pre-K’s effectiveness. As author Dale Farran noted: “The proposition that expanding pre-K will improve later achievement for children from low-income families is premature. Premature as well is the presumption that solid research exists to guide the content and structure
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Germany’s Student Right in the 1920s Was Just Like Today’s Student Left 0
- Education
- April 12, 2016
Germany’s path toward Nazism during the 1920s is a story well known. The most familiar facets in this story are the indoctrination of children through the Volk Movement and the creeping anti-semitism of the bourgeois and the German bureaucracy. What has received less attention is the radicalization of universities and students during the Weimar era
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Pedophilia is a sexual orientation?!?0
- Culture
- April 12, 2016
The Independent is reporting on a thought-provoking AMA (“ask me anything”) on Reddit that featured an anonymous, though verified, criminal psychologist and his/her perspective on pedophilia. Paedophilia is a ‘sexual orientation’ like being straight or gay, according to a criminal psychologist. The idea that sexual attraction to children is an ‘orientation’ is highly controversial as
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A Muslim King Makes a Gesture Toward Christians 0
- History
- April 12, 2016
The day before Easter in the Western world, King Abdullah of Jordan, a Muslim, announced that he is funding the restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. That may seem like mere inside baseball to non-believers. But in the wider picture of what’s sometimes called the “clash” of Muslim and Western civilizations,
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A New Way to Remedy American Students’ Ignorance of History?0
- Education
- April 12, 2016
As Intellectual Takeout has reported in the past, American students can be a bit clueless when it comes to historical events, even relatively recent ones like the Holocaust from World War II. But some teachers are seeking to change that through a new project known as History Unfolded. According to The Washington Post: “The project,
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Ben Franklin’s 7 Steps to Financial Success 0
- Culture
- April 12, 2016
Americans are strong and confident about many things. But when it comes to money and financial security, that confidence is thrown out the window. According to a 2015 Pew report: “Only half of Americans (51 percent) said their households are financially secure, and more than half (56 percent) reported worrying about their finances over the
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