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The Average American Today Is Richer than John D. Rockefeller 0
- Culture
- February 26, 2016
This Atlantic story reveals how Americans lived 100 years ago. By the standards of a middle-class American today, that lifestyle was poor, inconvenient, dreary, and dangerous. (Only a few years later — in 1924 — the 16-year-old son of a sitting US president would die of an infected blister that the boy got on his toe while playing
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New Study: Private School Students Ahead of Their Public School Peers by Two Years 0
- Education
- February 26, 2016
Last year a report from the Friedman Foundation found that only 9% of parents send their child to a private school. However, if given the means and opportunity to send their child to the school of their choice, 41% of parents would pick a private school. Those numbers seem especially important with the release of
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Is the Supreme Court Today More Powerful Than the Founders Intended?0
- Culture
- February 26, 2016
With the high-profile coverage of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death earlier this month, a number of Americans have turned their attention toward the appointment of his replacement. A recent Pew Research poll found that 55% of Americans believe the Senate should move forward with the confirmation process when President Obama appoints his nominee. Pew also released
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Colleges Are Planning on Coddling Freshmen (More Than They Already Do)0
- Education
- February 26, 2016
Apparently, colleges are having a hard time keeping students and graduating them. As NPR reports, according to the National Student Clearinghouse, colleges across the country are struggling to get students through to graduation: “In 2015, only a little more than half of students who enrolled in college in 2009 made it to graduation, with the
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The 5 Essentials of a Good Teacher 0
- Education
- February 26, 2016
The famous Vergara vs. California case, which held “that several key job protections for teachers are so harmful to students that they deprive children of their constitutional right to an education,” is back in court. Unhappy with the original decision, the teachers unions brought their case to the appellate court yesterday, hoping to gain back
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Whatever Happened to Noblesse Oblige?0
- Culture
- February 25, 2016
In the 1980s I served as the vicar of country parish of Brading on the Isle of Wight in England. One of my predecessors was The Rev’d Christian William Hampton Weekes—known affectionately as Hampy. Born in 1880 and educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was the Vicar of Brading from 1935 to his
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