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  • 5 Reasons to Go Back to One-Room Schools

    5 Reasons to Go Back to One-Room Schools0

    A number of years ago when I first started college, I sheepishly broached my English professor with a thesis for my freshman research paper: the revival of one-room schools in America. Her wholehearted approval and my subsequent research brought the realization that such an idea wasn’t as far-fetched as I’d first thought. Apparently, others in

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  • 15 Stats That Show Americans Are Drowning in ‘Stuff’

    15 Stats That Show Americans Are Drowning in ‘Stuff’0

    Getting kids to clean up after themselves is a rather unpleasant, ongoing struggle for many parents today. If one’s kids are messy, it’s typically assumed that it’s because of a lack of parental will, i.e., that the parents’ failed to discipline their children. I wouldn’t want to let parents completely off the hook here, but

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  • There Used to Be No Such Thing as ‘Adolescence’ in America

    There Used to Be No Such Thing as ‘Adolescence’ in America0

    The startling statistic of the day comes from a New York Post article written by Naomi Schaefer Riley. Riley highlights a new study from the University of Michigan which discovered that the number of young people age 20-24 with driver’s licenses had dropped from 91.8% to 76.7% in the last 30 years. Puzzling over the

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  • Report Says British and American Students Have Low Basic Skills

    Report Says British and American Students Have Low Basic Skills0

    Late last week, scores of British media outlets were obsessing over a new report which found that their students “are the most illiterate in the developed world with many students graduating with only a basic grasp of English and maths.” In looking at the report from the OECD (the organization responsible for the international PISA

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  • Psychologist: Rules Squash Children’s Creativity

    Psychologist: Rules Squash Children’s Creativity0

    If you would like your children to be creative, don’t give them very many rules. In fact, don’t really make them do much of anything. That seems to be the message of Adam Grant, professor of psychology for Wharton. In a New York Times op-ed, he encourages parents who desire their children to be creative

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  • Iowa: Who do you think will win?

    Iowa: Who do you think will win?0

    Obviously, the 2016 presidential election campaign season has already been a doozy. Donald Trump has shocked all of the usual pundits by climbing to the top of the polls and seemingly is staying there. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz is nipping at his heels trying to take the lead. On the Democrat side, Bernie Sanders has risen

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  • How Should We Interpret a Rise in Euthanasia?

    How Should We Interpret a Rise in Euthanasia?0

    BioEdge reports that legal acts of euthanasia have risen each year since Belgium’s right-to-die law was passed in 2002. 2013 saw the total jump to 1816. In 2014, it was 1924. And the figures for last are 2021 acts of euthanasia. What’s going on? It’s unlikely that the increase can be accounted for by a

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  • Carol Burnett: ‘Cleverness’ in Entertainment is Becoming Extinct

    Carol Burnett: ‘Cleverness’ in Entertainment is Becoming Extinct0

    Over the weekend, famed comedienne Carol Burnett received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Before receiving the award, Burnett gave a brief interview to The Hollywood Reporter, offering an interesting critique of the entertainment industry in the process: “Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey

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  • Another Lesson from Rome: Taxation, Bureaucracy, and the Rich vs. Poor

    Another Lesson from Rome: Taxation, Bureaucracy, and the Rich vs. Poor0

    Parallels in history are never perfect, nonetheless lessons can be learned. In Mediaeval History: Europe from the Second to the Sixteenth Century (1935), Carl Stephenson, a professor of history at Cornell University, provides a captivating account of Rome’s decline in the late 3rd century as seen in monetary policy, taxation, and how the burden was

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