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  • Oregon High School Discovers Hidden Benefits in Shop Class

    Oregon High School Discovers Hidden Benefits in Shop Class0

    Have you ever looked at the range of courses your child can take in high school and had the sense that something was missing? For many parents, that missing item is one that was a favorite course in high school: shop class. The reasons for the disappearance of shop class are simple: high stakes testing

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  • Moral Outrage: A Theory on Why We’re Seeing So Much of It

    Moral Outrage: A Theory on Why We’re Seeing So Much of It0

    Why do people express so much moral outrage? A pair of academic researchers recently asked this question and discovered “that moral outrage at third-party transgressions is sometimes a means of reducing guilt over one’s own moral failings and restoring a moral identity.” The paper is (appropriately) titled, “A cleansing fire: Moral outrage alleviates guilt and

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  • Let Little Boys Play Like Little Boys

    Let Little Boys Play Like Little Boys0

    A few months ago, neuroscientist Debra Soh declared that trendy attempts to raise children in a gender-neutral environment are downright “futile.” Soh explained: “[S]o long as children are given the option to take part in activities they find interesting, there’s nothing wrong with being gender-typical.” But according to a recent Dartmouth Review interview with philosopher

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  • Deconstructing a Viral Pro Gay Marriage Commercial

    Deconstructing a Viral Pro Gay Marriage Commercial0

    This week saw Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday come and go. And Saturday is Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. So we’ve well and truly entered Lent. This year’s theme for the world-famous parade of LGBTQI sexualities is “creating equality”. How do the BTQI crowds feel about being squeezed out of the name of the

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  • CIA Analysts Love to Read French Philosophy

    CIA Analysts Love to Read French Philosophy0

    CIA analysts have been reading Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes and Jean-Paul Sartre for years. The reasons might astound you.  In a recent article in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Gabriel Rockhill, a Philosophy professor at Villanova University, explains why the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a longstanding interest in post-World War

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  • What If Grocery Stores Worked Like Public Schools?

    What If Grocery Stores Worked Like Public Schools?0

    One of the most important things to consider when buying a house is the quality of the grocery district. As the name implies, the grocery district determines which public grocery store you and your family get to use. District maps are drawn by the government to ensure each grocery store has an appropriate number of

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  • Two Branches of Government Are All We Have Left, Scholar Says

    Two Branches of Government Are All We Have Left, Scholar Says0

    We learn in elementary school that the American federal system is divided into three equal branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial. But is that still the case?   Mickey Edwards, a former Congressman from Oklahoma who spent 13 years teaching government at Harvard and Princeton, says no. Here is what he wrote in a recent

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  • School Reform is Missing a Key Ingredient

    School Reform is Missing a Key Ingredient0

    The last several decades have seen Americans wake up to the fact that their schools are failing. Nowhere is this more apparent than in student performance on national and international tests. Such results have caused American educators and policy makers to flounder around trying to find a way to set American students back on track;

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  • Joe Biden’s New Job at Penn is a Mystery

    Joe Biden’s New Job at Penn is a Mystery0

    Earlier this month, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported that former Vice President Joe Biden had officially been named a professor at Penn under the title of “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor.” There was talk that Biden would lead “the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement” from Washington, D.C. The Penn Biden Center doesn’t exist

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