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  • Why are More Women in the Helping Professions? Hint: It’s Not the Patriarchy’s Fault

    Why are More Women in the Helping Professions? Hint: It’s Not the Patriarchy’s Fault0

    • August 22, 2017

    “Want to close wage gap? Step one: Change your major from feminist dance therapy to electrical engineering.” This tweet by American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers has been loved 32,000 times since 2015. It points to a fundamental truth about the reason that women are on average paid less than men. It’s because they

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  • The Real Reason Students Today Are So Listless

    The Real Reason Students Today Are So Listless1

    In recent years, the rise of high school graduation rates has been met with great exaltation. Naturally, these numbers seem to indicate that all is well in America’s classrooms. But have you ever noticed the odd discrepancy which accompanies these graduation rates? Why is that 83 percent of American students graduated from high school in

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  • The Quiet Exodus From Mass Schooling

    The Quiet Exodus From Mass Schooling3

    Parents are fed up. As mass schooling becomes more restrictive, more standardized and more far-reaching into a child’s young life, many parents are choosing alternatives. Increasingly, these parents are reclaiming their child’s education and are refocusing learning around children, family, and community in several different ways. With back-to-school time upon us, more than two million

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  • The New York Times Continues Its Tradition of Whitewashing Communism

    The New York Times Continues Its Tradition of Whitewashing Communism0

    It seems communism is back in vogue at The New York Times. A sad but common issue in the modern West is that progressives have created a fanciful and distorted picture of socialism to make it seem like an intriguing alternative to American-style capitalism. Ikea socialism—with Sweden as the model—is an utterly distorted, but at

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  • Scholars Propose Public Schooling for Babies to Fight Inequality

    Scholars Propose Public Schooling for Babies to Fight Inequality0

    In my years as a music teacher, I learned one very important thing. One could start teaching a child an instrument when they entered kindergarten, but the going would often be slow and the lessons a strain for both teacher and student. Once a child hit age seven, however, things began clicking at a much

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  • Removing Statues of Violent Bigots? Start with Che

    Removing Statues of Violent Bigots? Start with Che0

    Rosario is Argentina’s second oldest city. Located by the Paraná river, it is the home of hard-working people, a busy port, the national flag memorial, and the country’s bitterest football rivalry between Rosario Central and Newell’s Old Boys. It is also the birthplace of Ernesto “Ché” Guevara. In the last fifteen years or so, coincidentally

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