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  • U.S. Schools Using Greek and Latin to Boost Reading Skills

    U.S. Schools Using Greek and Latin to Boost Reading Skills0

    When The Nation’s Report Card released the 2015 reading scores for high schoolers, the public got confirmation of what it has long feared: student achievement has been gradually declining in recent decades.   But is it possible that those scores could be improved by reintroducing Greek and Latin into school curriculum?   According to a recent article

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  • Should Children Have Rights?

    Should Children Have Rights?0

    In recent years, many parents seem to have answered the title question with a resounding, “Yes!” Because of this, many have raised their children in an environment in which it’s unclear precisely who’s the boss.   As Leonard Sax has noted, this is one reason many children today seem out of control and are increasingly placed

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  • How Parents Are Slowly Ceding Authority to Children

    How Parents Are Slowly Ceding Authority to Children1

    Last weekend, our five-year-old daughter yelled at an adult friend of ours. When I found out about it later that day, I made my daughter call and apologize for yelling. It was very hard for her to do (oh, the waterworks!). She has a strong personality and doesn’t like to say sorry—at all. But I

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  • Do Christians Focus On Sexual Sin Too Much?

    Do Christians Focus On Sexual Sin Too Much?2

    • April 28, 2016

    The idea of sexual sin is deeply rooted in the Bible and Christian theology. I think few argue that adultery and fornication are, shall we say, strongly frowned upon in Scripture. We hear about it a lot, in churches, media, and daily conversations.   One could argue that a casual non-Christian observer could even be

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  • Black Students Fake Hate

    Black Students Fake Hate0

    Authorities have identified the culprits behind a racist drawing found on a whiteboard at Salisbury University in Maryland. Via USA Today: The image, found April 10 on a whiteboard in Blackwell Library, showed a stick figure being hung and labeled with a racial slur. Underneath was the hashtag “#whitepower.” The university confirmed Tuesday, April 26,

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  • 5 Powerful Signs You’re a Mature Soul

    5 Powerful Signs You’re a Mature Soul0

    What does it mean that the soul is mature? If, during your spiritual journey, you ask yourself the question: “What do I expect from life?” and you give an honest answer, the quality of that answer contains the response the question of the soul’s maturity. Signs of a mature soul: The mature soul is beyond its desires and

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  • 5 Differences Between Existential Loneliness and Interpersonal Loneliness

    5 Differences Between Existential Loneliness and Interpersonal Loneliness1

    When one thinks of loneliness it’s easy to visualize a person who does not have any friends, family, or acquaintances; being socially alone, without those connections.  One might also think of emotional loneliness, which stems from feeling like one has no meaningful relationships or connections in their life, like a partner, spouse, or with their

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  • The ‘Haunted’ Baby Craze in Thailand

    The ‘Haunted’ Baby Craze in Thailand0

    The internet is buzzing about the baby-boom underway in Bangkok—a plastic baby boom. That’s right, grown women are carrying around little dolls called luk thep (“little angels”). They apparently take them everywhere and treat them like an actual child complete with manicures at salons and meals at restaurants. Airlines have even set up guidelines to

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  • More Evidence that America’s Education System is Getting Worse

    More Evidence that America’s Education System is Getting Worse0

    The 2002 No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law set the bar high. It’s goal was for 100% of American students to be proficient in reading and math by 2014. When the class of 2015 entered kindergarten, the implementation of NCLB was just beginning. Because NCLB largely focused on subjects such as math and reading, it

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