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Why Students Today are Financially Illiterate 37
- Culture
- April 11, 2016
American students struggle when it comes to financial knowledge. When the OECD (the organization which runs the international PISA exam) tested students in 18 countries for their financial literacy abilities several years ago, it was discovered that U.S. students “ranked at best eighth and at worst 12th.” Bottom line? American students need more instruction in
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Should This Twerking Teacher Have Been Asked to Resign?0
- April 11, 2016
A 24-year-old teacher reportedly lost her job when a video of her ‘twerking’ in a bikini during a dance competition went viral on Facebook. The Daily Mail has the story: The explicit display took place while she was on an Easter break in Cabo San Lucas, a popular holiday spot in Baja California – a
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Gay and Transgender Issues: Can You Actually Change People’s Minds on Them?0
- Culture
- April 8, 2016
The irony is delicious. For once, it might justify optimism rather than cynicism. Consider carefully the facts reported in this story by Katie Palmer in the April 7 online issue of Wired magazine: In December 2014, researchers Michael J. LaCour and Donald P. Green published a report of their study in Science magazine, purporting to
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Bonhoeffer on the ‘Stupidity’ That Led to Hitler’s Rise 5
- Culture
- April 8, 2016
Although he was in power for only a handful of years, Hitler and his Nazi government slaughtered millions. One of the more well-known victims of that slaughter was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed on April 8th, 1945, a few short weeks before Hitler’s own death. Unlike many of Hitler’s victims, Bonhoeffer was not a Jew,
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Dostoyevsky’s Powerful Denunciation of Socialism 0
- Literature
- April 8, 2016
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is arguably the greatest Russian novel ever written (which means a case can be made that it is the best novel ever written, period). Kurt Vonnegut once wrote that Brothers is the one book “that can teach you everything you need to know about life.” Dostoyevsky has been praised for his
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Education Today: An Inch Deep and a Mile Wide?0
- Culture
- April 8, 2016
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal released a story on the different outcomes between those who take notes by hand and those who take notes via keyboard. According to the article, there are pros and cons to both sides: “Generally, people who take class notes on a laptop do take more notes and can
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