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  • Is Common Core Math Causing Students to Fall Further Behind?

    Is Common Core Math Causing Students to Fall Further Behind?0

    Every few months it seems that another story pops up concerning some child’s confusing Common Core math homework. For examples, check out the three famous ones below:     As authors Katharine Beals and Barry Garelick explain in The Atlantic, homework questions such as these are an attempt to have children understand the concepts behind

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  • Another Trophy is Claimed at Missouri

    Another Trophy is Claimed at Missouri0

    Campus Reform reports that “Dr. Dale Brigham, considered one of the most beloved professors at the University of Missouri, has been forced to resign after initially refusing to cancel an exam for students who claimed to feel ‘unsafe.’ ‘If you don’t feel safe coming to class, then don’t come to class,’ Dr. Brigham told his

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  • 5 Historic Quotes for Veterans Day

    5 Historic Quotes for Veterans Day1

    Many years ago, my little sister was given a school assignment to write a thank-you to a veteran. In her childish scrawl, she sent a thank-you card and picture to our grandfather, who served in World War II. That card hung on his refrigerator until the time our family cleaned out his house following his

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  • 20 Colleges That Might Actually Be Worth It

    20 Colleges That Might Actually Be Worth It0

    American students are increasingly questioning the value of college. According to a recent survey conducted by Gallup and Purdue University, nearly 40% of U.S. college graduates say their education wasn’t worth the cost. And they may very well be right. On the other hand, there still exist colleges where the money you fork over for

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  • When Truth is Relative, Racism is Okay

    When Truth is Relative, Racism is Okay0

    Our outrage is real. We feel injustices in our very souls.  As such, we must ask ourselves why that is and in so doing we are confronted with two options: 1) social constructs are pressuring us to feel a certain way or 2) there is a transcendent truth to which our sense of justice appeals. 

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  • What One of History’s Greatest Intellects Said About His Writings

    What One of History’s Greatest Intellects Said About His Writings0

    “All that I have written seems to me as so much straw.” No, these aren’t the words of a modern blogger. They came from St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), without question one of the greatest intellects history has known.  How brilliant was Aquinas? He conducted quodlibetal disputations, in which a gathered crowd at the university could

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  • How to Politically Condition a Generation

    How to Politically Condition a Generation0

    With all of the intolerance of “offensive” speech and ideas, it’s worth considering what could be happening. Is it all just to create a better society or are we being coerced into a certain mindset? Sure, what’s going on is not on the level of some of the tyrannies of the 20th century or fictions

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  • Fragile Snowflakes or Manipulative Narcissists?

    Fragile Snowflakes or Manipulative Narcissists?0

    At the same time some students are flexing their political muscles (with the help of some professors) at the University of Missouri, Yale, and other schools demanding “safe space”, we’re treated to an increasing number of stories about the lack of resilience and overall fragility of many college students. Quite honestly, the psychology of it

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  • College Isn’t the Time for a “Broad Education”

    College Isn’t the Time for a “Broad Education”0

    I always roll my eyes when I hear liberal arts professors today defending general requirements and expounding on the glories of a broad education.  It’s not that I disagree with them about the value of a broad education (after all, my doctorate is in one of the liberal arts). It’s just that I think college

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