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  • A Look Inside Detroit’s Crumbling Public Schools

    A Look Inside Detroit’s Crumbling Public Schools0

    It’s no secret that Detroit public schools are in turmoil. While public schools around the country are struggling, no system has suffered quite like those in the Motor City. This week the Atlantic offered a glimpse into city’s crumbling system, which came under state control seven years ago. (State administration has not improved the system.)

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  • Should Students be Taught to Argue Rationally?

    Should Students be Taught to Argue Rationally?0

    Critical thinking has become a buzzword in today’s education system – and for good cause. Effective reasoning skills are essential in the fast-paced information world in which we live. But are students actually learning how to be critical thinkers? Or do teachers really even know how to train students in effective reasoning?   If college students

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  • Racial Unrest is Tame Compared to a Century Ago

    Racial Unrest is Tame Compared to a Century Ago0

    There is a powerful perception in the United States that race relations are deteriorating. A recent Gallup poll revealed that this view is shared by blacks and whites. Thirty-five percent now say they worry about race relations “a great deal,” up more than 100 percent from just four years ago. This angst is no doubt

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  • Oxford Expert: 10% Chance Humans Extinct in a Century

    Oxford Expert: 10% Chance Humans Extinct in a Century0

    I have not been blessed with a refined taste in cinema, with my favorite movie franchise being the Terminator series, especially the second and third, in which Arnie is in peak form. Alas, there’s not enough space here to reminisce, so let’s confine ourselves to the premise for the action.  On August 29, 1997, Skynet,

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  • Don’t Find Yourself, Overcome Yourself

    Don’t Find Yourself, Overcome Yourself0

    Selves are not found; they are created. That’s the perennially valid message of some ancient Chinese philosophers, according to the book The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh, a journalist with a PhD in East Asian history who studied under Puett. Puett, a Professor

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  • Are Unmarried Cohabiting Parents as Effective as Married Ones?

    Are Unmarried Cohabiting Parents as Effective as Married Ones?0

    In recent years, it has become commonplace for young couples to live together and start a family before officially entering their names on the marriage register. But according to a recent chart compiled by Forbes, American couples are not the only ones choosing the cohabitating form of parenthood: “In countries around the world, increasing numbers

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  • A Beginner’s Guide to Sex Differences in the Brain

    A Beginner’s Guide to Sex Differences in the Brain0

    Asking whether there are sex differences in the human brain is a bit like asking whether coffee is good for you – scientists can’t seem to make up their minds about the answer. In 2013, for example, news stories proclaimed differences in the brain so dramatic that men and women “might almost be separate species.”

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  • 3 Non-Medicating Ways to Reduce Anxiety in Our Children

    3 Non-Medicating Ways to Reduce Anxiety in Our Children0

    It’s no secret that anxiety has been on an upward climb in the U.S. in recent years. According to Psychology Today, this is particularly true of young people, for “five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or anxiety disorder as was true half

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  • 18 Ways Lord of Rings is Christian Allegory

    18 Ways Lord of Rings is Christian Allegory1

    Tolkien described The Lord of the Rings as “a fundamentally religious and Catholic work.” Is it possible to summarize this dimension of Tolkien’s magnum opus in fewer than 600 words? You better believe it!  The connections between The Lord of the Rings and Christianity are numerous. There is a connection symbolically between the One Ring and Original Sin and, therefore, between Mount Doom and Golgotha.

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