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Today’s High School Students Need More Vocational Training0
- September 25, 2015
If you were a high school student and had the option to either go to college and accumulate a load of debt or start a job immediately after graduation making a decent, middle-class salary, which would you choose? For many of today’s young people, the latter option sounds like an ideal, but impossible, situation. But
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Should Couples Have More Children?0
- September 25, 2015
A newly released study entitled the “World Family Map 2015” presents a number of interesting facts on the state of the family worldwide. One of these facts focuses on the average number of children per family in various countries. What’s interesting is how many developed nations barely have enough children to replace their current population,
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Pat the (Offensive) Bunny0
- September 25, 2015
Nothing gives you an idea of how much things have changed like old children’s books. In many a nursery room around the U.S., you will likely find a number of little, worn-down hardcover books that have been read a thousand times. Goodnight Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Guess How Much I Love You, and Pat
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Mayor Proposes Website Revealing the Names of Welfare Recipients0
- September 25, 2015
Taxpayers are increasingly calling for transparency in government spending. As a result, you can now find the salaries of each government employee, and in some states, the pension amounts they receive. One mayor in Maine is proposing to take the public’s desire for transparency a step further: revealing welfare recipients by name. In
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Harvard Prof Says U.S. and China Could be at War in the Next Decade0
- September 25, 2015
It’s a question many of us have wondered about, but few have given sustained attention: will the U.S. eventually find itself at war with China? In a fascinating article for The Atlantic, Harvard professor Graham Allison argues that the “Thucydides Trap” makes such a conflict more likely than not in the near future.
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6 Problematic Quotes from the Founder of America’s Education System1
- September 25, 2015
Horace Mann is known as the “father of American public education.” Motivated by a desire to both further the moral improvement of mankind and preserve the American republic, Mann led the Common School Movement that eventually resulted in the public education system America knows today. As children bear the marks of their parents, so America’s
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$67 million for Volkswagen’s resigned CEO?0
- September 25, 2015
Volkswagen is facing up to $18 billion (yes, billion) in fines from the EPA as a result of cheating to get its diesel-powered automobiles to pass U.S. emission standards. CEO Martin Winterkorn has now resigned, but between his pension and severance pay package he may walk away with up to $67 million. The Washington Post
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What Plutarch Had to Say about Tiger Moms0
- September 24, 2015
Let’s admit it: Tiger Moms are both intimidating and impressive. Impressive because they take their children to great heights; intimidating because many feel they can never live up to the same drive, energy, and standards that Tiger Moms expect. Interestingly, Plutarch had a thing or two to say about Tiger Parenting. Based on his advice,
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Technology Invades Our Minds0
- September 24, 2015
It is such an ever-present part of our modern existence that we often overlook how technology actually changes us, for better or worse. Now, before we address the problems of technology, let us first make it clear that recognizing negative impacts of technology doesn’t automatically make one a luddite. You are, after all, reading this
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