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The 5-Second Rule is Actually True – NASA Says So 0
- Culture
- February 9, 2016
If I recall correctly, I first heard of the 5-second rule as a teenager while working in a community kitchen with some other girls. Someone likely dropped a cookie on the floor, yelped “Oops! 5-second rule!”, dusted off the cookie, and popped it into her mouth. We giggled over the incident, saying with feigned sarcasm,
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Should School and Sports Part Ways?0
- Culture
- February 9, 2016
Would students of all types – athletic or academic – benefit from the separation of school and sports? That’s the gist of a question recently asked by Michael Hansen in U.S. News and World Report. According to Hansen, sports in both high school and college are a huge drain on financial resources, and often draw
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Homeschooling, Socialization, and the New Groupthink 0
- Education
- February 9, 2016
“But what about socialization?” We who educate our children outside the school system confront an exhausting array of accusations posing as concerns, but the most puzzling — and the most persistent — is the socialization question. For years, I’ve taken it at face value: How, the skeptic seems to be asking, will your kids ever
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The “Cultural Appropriation” Thing is Getting Out of Hand 0
- February 9, 2016
Lately we’ve been hearing a PC leitmotif attacking “cultural appropriation,” which according to James O. Young is “the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture.” Apparently it’s now considered racist or imperialist (or something) for one culture to borrow or elaborate on elements of another. And, according to
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Parenting: It’s Okay to Rely on Common Sense 0
- Family
- February 9, 2016
Dr. Spock famously said to parents, “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” But if the success and prevalence of parenting resources are any evidence, parents seem less and less able to trust themselves. Today, “about a third [of parents](34%) say they often or sometimes get advice from parenting websites, books or
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Even Math can be Biased 0
- Culture
- February 9, 2016
Whenever the topic of bias and values in education comes up, most people generally would think of topics such as history or civics. But the idea of values driving all education goes much deeper. Even to math. One would assume that a teacher’s or school’s values and beliefs couldn’t interfere with math, right? After all,
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