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  • Are Huge Schools Sucking the Life Out of Our Kids?

    Are Huge Schools Sucking the Life Out of Our Kids?0

    I’ve been fascinated with the concept of the one-room school ever since I watched television episodes of Little House on the Prairie in my preschool years. Admittedly, my early fascination stemmed from the romanticism of wanting to be like Laura Ingalls. But as I grew older and that romanticism faded, the interest in one-room schools

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  • Why Planned Parenthood Should be Defunded

    Why Planned Parenthood Should be Defunded0

    Planned Parenthood has 56 independent local affiliates that operate more than 600 centers across the country. According to Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report, 41 percent ($555 million) of the organization’s revenue comes from government reimbursements and grants. Planned Parenthood is also the nation’s largest abortion provider, performing more than 320,000 abortions a year — more than 30

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  • Why Eating Healthy is so Damn Hard (and Arguably Pointless)

    Why Eating Healthy is so Damn Hard (and Arguably Pointless)0

    About 15 years ago, when I was in graduate school, a roommate of mine watched in horror as I salted a slice of pizza. He was a medical student, and many intelligent educators and textbooks had instructed him on the dangers of table salt. “Do you know what that salt is doing to your body?”

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  • Why Americans Are Such Suckers for Propaganda

    Why Americans Are Such Suckers for Propaganda0

    To many Americans, high school seems like a normal part of life. To not attend is unheard of; to fail to graduate is a death sentence for one’s future. But what we often forget is that the modern high school is a relatively new concept. As Paul Beston notes in a recent article for City

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  • To Empower Students with Effective Writing Skills, Handwriting Matters

    To Empower Students with Effective Writing Skills, Handwriting Matters0

    Writing is virtually part of everything we do. It is one of the most powerful tools used to communicate our knowledge, emotions and beliefs, across distance and time. Writing is also a fundamental part of the school curriculum as an outcome and as a means to demonstrate learning across subjects and grades. However, the writing

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  • The West Is Suffering from ‘Metaphysical Boredom’

    The West Is Suffering from ‘Metaphysical Boredom’0

    There are growing fears about the future of Western Civilization. It’s becoming clearer to the American and European public that most of its schools, churches, and media outlets do not care a lick for preserving the intellectual treasures and moral principles of their culture’s past, and are even inculcating a disdain for all things Western.

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  • Millennial Dog Moms Now Refusing to Vaccinate

    Millennial Dog Moms Now Refusing to Vaccinate0

    Every now and then, I come across an article that causes me to have a “Wait, is this satire?” moment. Those moments have always ended with a laugh and the realization that yes, said article is indeed a joke. Until today, that is. The article that caught my attention was produced by Slate and entitled

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  • Louis Armstrong Lived the American Dream—And Never Apologized For It

    Louis Armstrong Lived the American Dream—And Never Apologized For It0

    Jazz musician Louis Armstrong claimed he was born on the Fourth of July.  Although subsequent research has shown that he was actually born on August 4, Armstrong is no less an American icon, a performer who reconciled people through the joy of his music. What is not so widely known is that this great entertainer

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  • 6 Brilliant Authors Who Died Penniless

    6 Brilliant Authors Who Died Penniless0

    The many authors we hail today as cultural and literary geniuses are often assumed to have been recognized as such during their lifetimes, living successful – at least financially successful – lives. However, that assumption is often not the case. The five authors below were not as popular during their lives as they are now

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