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These Eight US States have Shrunk in 2016 0
- Culture
- January 16, 2017
New York, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Connecticut, Vermont, Illinois, and West Virginia all experienced shrinking populations in 2015-2016 according to figures recently released by the United States Census Bureau. This was in part due to internal migration by people seeking new employment opportunities, warmer weather or retirement in other states. Despite some states benefitting from migration
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That Teacher Who Got Impregnated by a 13-Year-Old Was Sentenced 0
- Culture
- January 16, 2017
Via the Washington Post: A former Texas middle-school teacher who was impregnated by a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Alexandria Vera, 25, was facing up to 30 years behind bars after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child in November. She admitted to police that a relationship that
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Not Everyone Has the Same Capacity for Learning 0
- Economics
- January 16, 2017
In America, since the first half of the 19th century, much energy has been expended on offering education to all citizens. At first, this desire for universal education was for an education in the basics. It gave birth to the Common School Movement (the progenitor of America’s public school system), which was guided in part
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My Lyft Ride with a Black Trump Supporter on MLK Day 0
- Culture
- January 16, 2017
The media narrative on American politics has become so tedious you don’t have to listen anymore. Every story seems to follow a formula, and never more so on than on the Martin Luther King holiday. Every headline proclaims how black Americans are horrified at Trump’s insensitivity to the historical plight of blacks in the civil
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Is it Time We Stopped Viewing Schools as the Best Parent?0
- Culture
- January 16, 2017
When it comes to school, educators always know best, right? This assumption was challenged by Jay Matthews in The Washington Post over the weekend. After reporting on an incident at a high caliber high school where parents felt educators and administrators were not listening to their concerns, Matthews noted: “Failure to tell parents what is
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9 Truths MLK Taught us about Peace and Nonviolence 0
- Culture
- January 16, 2017
1. “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.” – How Long, Not
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What Parents Can Learn From this 4-Year-Old Reading Prodigy 0
- Education
- January 13, 2017
As The Washington Post reported, the Library of Congress had a special visitor Wednesday: 4-year-old Daliyah Arana. But Daliyah wasn’t visiting the library as just any old tourist. She was visiting as the “librarian of the day.” According to the WaPo, Daliyah attained this special status for her stellar reading ability. Even though she has
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The One Thing Even High-Quality Childcare Can’t Offer 0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
There’s a lot of discussion these days about the high cost of raising a child and caring for him. In fact, just this week, the USDA rolled out its numbers on the cost of raising a child. Warning: It’s not very pretty: “[F]or a child born in 2015, a middle-income married-couple family will spend between
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The Myth of Romantic Love May be Ruining Your Health 0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
Romantic love in Western societies is often portrayed in a stereotypical way: two yearning halves, who search for each other to find their complete, original state. Few find this bliss because it’s a myth, dating back to Plato. In Greek mythology, the perfect lovers were joined together and sliced in two. Love, then, is the
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