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Is It Okay to Bribe Your Kids?0
- July 31, 2015
One of the “joys” of parenting is struggling to get your children to perform required tasks. The most difficult struggles usually involve getting them to do chores and homework. Sometimes, after initial pleas and threats have been fruitless, after the child has done a mediocre job, or even after the child has been punished,
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I’m Tired of Celebrating “Teachers”0
- July 31, 2015
The latest Key & Peele sketch “TeachingCenter” is still going viral. It’s a spoof of SportsCenter that imagines a world where we put as much time, energy, and money into honoring teachers as we do athletes. In case you haven’t seen it, here it is: Most of the reactions have been predictable: “If only…”; “Teachers
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Cursive: Easier Than We’ve Been Led to Believe?0
- July 31, 2015
You’ve either heard of a situation like the following or been in it yourself: The 29-year-old head of the customer service department walks down the hall and passes a hand-written complaint to a middle-age employee. “Here,” she says, “can you read this note for me? I can’t read the woman’s handwriting.” Puzzled, he looks at
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Was Your High School English Class Better than Your Grandma’s?0
- July 30, 2015
My grandmother passed away a few months ago. While looking through her belongings, I discovered several scrapbooks from her school days in the 1930s and 40s. One page in the scrapbook focuses on her 9th-grade English course in a small, rural high school in Minnesota. Pasted to the page is a workbook of sample questions
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Walter Palmer: Scapegoat?0
- July 30, 2015
Many people are confused why more vitriol is being directed toward Walter Palmer, the killer of Cecil the Lion, than toward Planned Parenthood after another undercover video of their actions was released. Many assume it is because the mainstream media is actively colluding with Planned Parenthood, or is suppressing news about the video because they are
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Mythbusters Star Argues That Schools Should Bring Back Shop Class0
- July 29, 2015
With the growth of standardized testing in recent decades, America’s education system has increasingly removed classes in the visual, performing, and mechanical arts. In the latter category, the iconic shop class of America’s educational past is now a rarity in today’s schools. But, if this viral newspaper clipping below is any indication, Americans want shop
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Men and Women: Equal but not the Same?0
- July 29, 2015
Those of us born after the sexual revolution of the 1960s have been raised to believe that there is no inherent difference between men and women. Furthermore, we have been told that those differences which seem to exist are only surface-level and can be overcome simply by enabling women to do the same things as
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Cecil the Lion Named for Racist, Imperialist0
- July 29, 2015
If you know anything about the colonization of Africa in the 1800s, you might be wondering about where “Cecil the Lion” got his name. You see, there was an Englishman named Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) who left quite the mark on the African continent. You might know his name because of the foundation he left which
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A Haunting Line About How Civilizations Fall0
- July 29, 2015
Below is the oft-quoted line from Will Durant, which appears in the Epilogue to volume 3 of his Story of Civilization. You may remember it from the beginning of Mel Gibson’s film Apocalypto. Here’s the context of the passage: Save this article to favorites
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