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‘Worst Teachers in the System’ Set to Join Struggling Schools, Principal Says0
- Economics
- August 21, 2017
We’ve probably all heard some type of rumor about “rubber rooms” before. They’re the hangout of those in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool, a group of New York teachers who haven’t been assigned to an official position in a classroom, and instead remain in a paid, “on-call” type of status. This status originally came about
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Why the Bible Doesn’t Stand a Chance Today5
- Religion
- August 18, 2017
The 2002 film Reign of Fire portrays a post-apocalyptic world in which dragons have reawakened and established their dominance over the world. Near the beginning of the film, Christian Bale and Gerard Butler’s characters do a dramatic portrayal of a scene from The Empire Strikes Back for a group of children who would have never
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What Americans Can Learn From this 1940s Anti-Nazi Film Going Viral (Video)0
- Culture
- August 18, 2017
The same day neo-Nazis and antifascists clashed in Charlottesville, Michael Oman-Reagan shared on Twitter a 1940s short-film titled “Don’t Be A Sucker.” The film, produced by the U.S. War Department in 1943, depicts an ornery bigot on a soap box seeking to enlist fellow Americans to his cause while denouncing Catholics, blacks, immigrants, and other groups. Oman-Reagan,
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The Death of Reading0
- Culture
- August 18, 2017
I read Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis for the first time last December. A lifelong Christian and Narnia superfan, I’m late to the party, I know. But as the dust settled from an election that shined a glaring spotlight on our cultural divisions—political, social, economic, theological—I was feeling out of sorts. Christian leaders I respected as
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The Best Anti-Fascist Strategy? Let them Speak.0
- Philosophy
- August 18, 2017
While the country is still reeling from shocking images of the violence in Charlottesville, VA last weekend, CNN reports the so-called “Alt Right” is planning nine events for this weekend, including a “free speech rally” in Boston. As expected, counter-protests are being planned, although local police in most areas are planning to take measures to
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Our Information Society is Not Yielding More Knowledge0
- Culture
- August 18, 2017
In today’s world, modern celebrities and artists seem to be primarily concerned with their image and whether or not it is aligned with the politically correct thought of the day. It is for this reason that it’s easy to sit up and take note when a celebrity actually goes against the grain of today’s conventional
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How Much Should We Hate Our Enemies?0
- Culture
- August 18, 2017
The same-sex marriage debate is about to heat up in Australia, and for both sides the temptation to embrace fear and hate will be fierce. Most of us have enemies, even if we don’t recognise it. Most of us hate someone, or some group of people, even if we won’t admit it to ourselves. Hate
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Elementary School to Remove ‘Conformity’ Posters Amid Uproar0
- Education
- August 18, 2017
In case there was any ambiguity over the idea that mass schooling values and rewards conformity and compliance, an elementary school in Florida has made it very clear. At Deer Park Elementary School in Pasco County, signs appeared this week showing a hierarchy of behaviors from good to bad. “Democracy” was at the top, “Anarchy”
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Are Christians Today Lazy Thinkers?0
- Culture
- August 18, 2017
Pew Research recently ran an interesting experiment on state constitutions. As they report, “The U.S. Constitution never explicitly mentions God or the divine, but the same cannot be said of the nation’s state constitutions.” The following chart is proof of this, showing the number of mentions the Almighty receives in the legal underpinnings of every
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