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Are Child Care Costs Driving Parents Back Home?0
- August 10, 2015
Child care costs are increasingly unmanageable for American families. According to the Washington Post, “The average annual cost of infant-center-based care is virtually the same as the average cost of tuition and fees at a four-year public college.” And it’s not only infant care that is straining the pocketbooks of Americans – childcare in general
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Practicing Gratitude in the Shadow of the Third Reich0
- August 7, 2015
German-born Anne Frank is surely the most unusual best-selling teenage author of the 20th century. She penned but one volume, a diary, while hiding from the Nazis during the German occupation of the Netherlands. “How wonderful it is,” she wrote in that tiny hideaway, “that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve
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More screening, or more married parents?0
- August 7, 2015
The News Story: New Recommendations for Depression Screening in Primary Care The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is considering a new standard recommending that all adults be routinely screened for depression during visits to their primary care provider, according to a story released by the American Academy of Family Physicians. According to the AAFP,
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Is Modern Life Making People Lonely?2
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- August 7, 2015
We walk the streets rarely making eye contact with those we brush up against. We zoom along our freeways, only occasionally glancing at the driver beside us. We sit on the metro and hope we don’t need to make conversation. We wave at our neighbors but rarely talk to them. We are surrounded by people
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Huffing, Puffing, and Blowing High School Literature Courses to the Ground0
- August 7, 2015
Have you asked a high school junior lately what they’re reading in school? According to a report coming out of New York, it’s not Shakespeare… it’s… The Three Little Pigs?! “The report from the state Education Department says the classic children’s fairy tale was just one of several ridiculously easy reading assignments uncovered at Landmark
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Would You Have Wanted This Curriculum in High School?1
- August 6, 2015
There’s a growing consensus that the curriculum of many American high schools has been dumbed down, and that we need to expect more of our students. In response, some schools are returning to a curriculum that approximates the rigor of times past. One is Trinity School at River Ridge – a private school in Minnesota
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The Out-of-Wedlock Birthrate is Going Up0
- August 6, 2015
Take a look at the trend of births to unwed mothers in America since 1940: And now, more than half of all births to millennial women (of all races) in America take place out of wedlock. Should we be worried about this trend and the decline of child bearing within marriage? Well, statistically speaking, parents
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Not Equal?0
- August 6, 2015
In the public mind, sex and gender are now separate, though the terms are often confused. Just to clarify, according to the dominant cultural narrative of our time sex (male or female) is biological while gender (masculine or feminine) is how one identifies. Logically, it gets very messy, especially when considered through the lens of
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Good Luck Deciphering This Academic Gibberish!0
- August 6, 2015
There is a special drudgery to much of academic writing these days. If you think some of it is incomprehensible, it is. But to the writer and a select circle, you are too stupid to understand it. So which one is closer to the truth? Back in the 1990s, Denis Dutton, a respected philosopher out
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