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Colleges Are Eagerly Accepting Homeschooled Kids 0
- Education
- February 18, 2016
Several years ago, a relative of mine registered for college classes while still in high school. She hit a roadblock, however, when the college asked for a transcript. Upon explaining that she was homeschooled and didn’t have an official one, the admissions officer cautiously asked, “Well, what’s your ACT score look like?” Hearing it, the
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Children Should Learn about TANSTAAFL 0
- Economics
- February 18, 2016
In the late 1920s, my grandmother would go to the local store and ask for “a penny’s worth of mixed candies and chocolates.” In return for her penny, she was handed a brown paper lunch bag full of sweets. Thirty years later, my mother made the trek to the corner store in her neighborhood. She
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Can a Christian build a wall?0
- Culture
- February 18, 2016
From CNN, we learn that Pope Francis jumped into American politics with a comment about Donald Trump and building walls: “But Francis left little doubt where he stood on the polarizing issue of immigration reform. ‘A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This
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You Can’t Separate ‘Critical Thinking’ and Good Writing 1
- Education
- February 17, 2016
One of the main things that today’s education system seeks to instill is “critical thinking.” But as progress in critical thinking is difficult to measure, how can we know if students are learning this valuable skill? The answer, I discovered, is simple: look at their writing skills. Such an idea was suggested in the early
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Teachers Fed Up with Undisciplined Students 0
- Culture
- February 17, 2016
According to George Skelton in the Los Angeles Times, an increasing number of teachers may be pondering an exit from the profession, and are reluctant to encourage others to follow in their footsteps. Their reasons for such feelings were varied, but the looming elephant in the room was the lack of respect and poor discipline
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Study: Clutter Linked To Overeating 0
- Science
- February 17, 2016
Happy? Eat to celebrate. Sad? Eat to comfort. Bored? Eat for the heck of it. It’s a well-established fact that people eat for all sorts of non-hunger related reasons, particularly emotional highs and lows. But, a new study suggests that environment may be playing a bigger role in how much we eat than we had
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Revered Philosopher: Children Actually Want Parents to Lay Down the Law 0
- Culture
- February 17, 2016
Over the years I’ve heard various parents explain their approach to parenting in the following way: “We really don’t want to force our children to ______ (fill in the blank with ’do chores,’ ’go to church,’ ‘practice an instrument,’ or any number of other responsibilities). We want them to make their own decisions and decide
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Psychiatrist: Not Everything is a Mental Disease 0
- Science
- February 17, 2016
Some readers might recognize the name “Theodore Dalrymple.” It’s the pen name of the iconoclastic British psychiatrist Anthony Daniels, who in semi-retirement keeps on writing books. His twenty-third is Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality (2015). An interview he gave soon after the book’s publication sums up his thesis, which is rather unconventional even if,
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NPR Questions Bernie Sanders’ Free College Plan 0
- Education
- February 17, 2016
The presidential election is over eight months away and already the nomination process has seen surprising twists. The most recent is the rising popularity of Bernie Sanders. Young people are one of Sanders’ most supportive demographic groups, and his offer of free public college might partially explain why. But as NPR’s Anya Kamenetz reports, Sanders’
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