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  • Statistician Rethinks Gun Control After Digging into the Data

    Statistician Rethinks Gun Control After Digging into the Data0

    Statistician Leah Libresco said she used to be for gun control. Then she looked at the data. Writing at the Washington Post, the former newswriter for the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight explained her epiphany. “Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking

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  • How Music and Shakespeare Turned Around a Failing School

    How Music and Shakespeare Turned Around a Failing School0

    We all want the best for our kids. Because of this desire, it’s quite discouraging to see when efforts to boost progress in reading, math, and other subjects flatline in schools across the country, as the chart below shows. On the other hand, this perpetual stagnation causes us to sit up and notice when a

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  • 8 Climate Change Questions Scientists Should Be Asking

    8 Climate Change Questions Scientists Should Be Asking0

    Dr. Arturo Casadevall and Dr. Ferric C. Fang correctly distilled down the scientific method into a five word query: “but what if I’m wrong?” One would hope that as these two microbiologists step out of the comfort zone of their field into the politically charged and messaging-driven world of environmental science and policy they ask

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  • 3 Charts That Show Why Apprenticeship is Increasingly Popular

    3 Charts That Show Why Apprenticeship is Increasingly Popular0

    For a number of years, college was the be-all, end-all goal toward which educators, parents, and government officials directed high school students. But as is becoming ever more clear, the wind has begun to blow in a different direction. Nowhere is this more clear than in a recent article from Education Week, which gushed over

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  • When It Comes to Religion, Do Dan Brown and C.S. Lewis Agree?

    When It Comes to Religion, Do Dan Brown and C.S. Lewis Agree?0

    Ahead of the release of his new book Origin, famed author Dan Brown was interviewed by CBS. During the course of the interview, the issue of religion came up and Brown was asked to elaborate on his views of this explosive subject. In response to whether he was “anti-religion,” Brown replied: “Absolutely not. Religion does

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  • What Da Vinci Can Teach Us about Education

    What Da Vinci Can Teach Us about Education0

    A new biography of Leonardo da Vinci has a lot to say about what it is to be a truly educated person. Biographer Walter Isaacson, who also wrote recent well-regarded biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Steve Jobs, hones in on the most important aspect of da Vinci: His love of knowledge for its own

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  • What ‘Fixer Upper’ Taught Us About Marriage

    What ‘Fixer Upper’ Taught Us About Marriage0

    In their years on HGTV’s show, Fixer Upper, hosts Chip and Joanna Gaines achieved far more than merely getting Americans to embrace open floor plans and shiplap; they made marriage look fun again. The Texas couple’s decision to end the show after soon-to-be-aired Season Five ensures it won’t devolve into them simply playing certain roles,

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  • Schools Are Now Seeking ‘Racially Conscious’ Teachers

    Schools Are Now Seeking ‘Racially Conscious’ Teachers0

    In the fall issue of Thinking Minnesota, Katherine Kersten offers a deep-dive look into the social justice activism that is beginning to take hold in many of America’s schools. And so far the results have not been pretty. Kersten, an attorney and a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, shows that one

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  • Conservatives Strike Back Against ‘Ideological Tidal Wave’ in School District

    Conservatives Strike Back Against ‘Ideological Tidal Wave’ in School District0

    It’s widely believed that there is a strong liberal bias in America’s public school system. Yet, by all accounts, most conservative-minded Americans still send their children to the local public schools, in spite of a growing ideological divide in this country. But why? Some do it because of economic necessity; others, because they place a

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