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  • How the ‘New Math’ is Ruining Education

    How the ‘New Math’ is Ruining Education0

    By now, you’ve probably seen some of the complaints on the internet about the “new math” being promoted by the Common Core Standards. Many grade-school children—including, for instance, comedian Louis CK’s children—have come home with math homework that is virtually indecipherable to their parents. The goal behind the new math, it seems, is to encourage

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  • How Grade Inflation Erodes the Meaning of College

    How Grade Inflation Erodes the Meaning of College0

    Every so often, the issue of grade inflation makes the headlines, and we are reminded that grades are being debased continuously.  That happened in late March when the two academics who have most assiduously studied grade inflation—Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy—provided fresh evidence on their site GradeInflation.com that grade inflation continues.  The authors state, “After 30 years of making

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  • Are Today’s Schools Killing Students’ Desire for Learning?

    Are Today’s Schools Killing Students’ Desire for Learning?0

    We’ve heard all the stories. Homeschoolers consistently get higher ACT scores than public school students. Homeschoolers score above average on standardized tests. Homeschoolers have “higher quality friendships and better relationships with their parents and other adults.” With numbers like these, it’s no wonder that homeschooling saw an increase of over 60% in the last decade.

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  • Why Will and Kate Dress Their Kids in Traditional Clothing

    Why Will and Kate Dress Their Kids in Traditional Clothing0

    In case you haven’t noticed, the occasion of Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday has provided all of us curious commoners with plenty of new pictures to gaze at and analyze. None more so than those which include Will and Kate’s cute kids, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. Commenting on the picture of the Queen surround by

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  • Why Don’t People Change Their Minds? It’s All About Survival

    Why Don’t People Change Their Minds? It’s All About Survival0

    If the current political campaigns have revealed anything about Americans, it is that they loathe changing their minds. Although a few people may vote for a different political party this year, because the two frontrunners struggle with likeability, most Americans will hold fast to their personal values and beliefs—at least on the big issues, such

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  • Study: People Who Curse Have Better Vocabularies

    Study: People Who Curse Have Better Vocabularies0

    Okay, finally we have good evidence that cursing isn’t some classless, primitive behavior that most think is indicative of barbarism and heathenism. Alright, maybe it’s not that extreme, but there are people out there who think that cursing is unattractive and unnecessary. If you’ve ever been accused of sounding less intelligent because you swear too

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  • Progressives Have a Dilemma When It Comes to ‘Gender’

    Progressives Have a Dilemma When It Comes to ‘Gender’0

    There’s a meme circulating among socially conservative Facebook users that poses what seems to be a fascinating dilemma for progressives: It does seem that the two propositions are logically incompatible with each other, yet both are widely held among progressives. But are they really incompatible? Some radical feminists of the “second wave” that arose in

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  • Outer Space: Why Have We Heard Nothing?

    Outer Space: Why Have We Heard Nothing?0

    A year ago, Ellen Stofan, a chief scientist at NASA, made a bold prediction on the question of the discovery of alien life in the universe: I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years

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  • Are Parents Being Hoodwinked by the Public Schools?

    Are Parents Being Hoodwinked by the Public Schools?0

    When it comes to public education, parents are quick to condemn the system as a whole, but give a positive rating to their own local schools. As Gallup discovered a few years ago, 75% of parents express satisfaction with their child’s education.   Judging from a new survey released by Learning Heroes, that high percentage of

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