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Apprenticeships Are Leading a Quiet Revolution in Higher Ed0
- Culture
- January 6, 2017
There is a revolution happening in higher education. It’s happening without fanfare. It’s in what futurist investor Peter Diamandis might call the “deceptive phase”. This revolution is the rediscovery of a longstanding idea that somehow got lost in the last century or so: apprenticeship. The Loud Nothing Higher education is a popular target for reformers.
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America’s Kids Badly Need a ‘Chore Culture’0
- Culture
- January 6, 2017
The other day, NPR wrote a feature article about a unique program at John Bowne High School in New York City. Despite being in the heart of one of the biggest metropolises in the United States, John Bowne runs an agricultural program for upwards of 500 students. Known as “Aggies,” these students “grow crops, care
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Teacher Explains Why Schools Can’t Produce Well-Educated Minds0
- Culture
- January 5, 2017
In recent years, a number of Americans have been awaking to the realization that today’s children are not receiving a high-quality education. The nation’s test scores in everything from reading to science are evidence of that. But while many Americans now recognize what a good education is not, many are unsure exactly what it is.
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Students Don’t Need a “Passion,” They Need Persistence0
- Education
- January 5, 2017
Millennials are right to be angry about their schooling. Even the perpetrators see some of the damage they’re doing. “Escalating achievement pressure is not healthy for our youth,” says Kedra Ishop, an associate vice president for enrollment at the University of Michigan. “Young people are suffering from higher rates of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse
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Is Hunting Moral? A Philosopher Unpacks the Question0
- Culture
- January 5, 2017
Every year as daylight dwindles and trees go bare, debates arise over the morality of hunting. Hunters see the act of stalking and killing deer, ducks, moose and other quarry as humane, necessary and natural, and thus as ethical. Critics respond that hunting is a cruel and useless act that one should be ashamed to
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How to Avoid Pointless Reading0
- Education
- January 5, 2017
One of the funniest, but also most painful-to-watch, parts of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is in the Wichita hotel, when Steve Martin’s character has reached the boiling point with John Candy’s character, and finally unloads on him in a classic rant. At the close of the rant, he says the following: “And by the way,
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Can’t Find a Man? Now You Can Marry Yourself!0
- Culture
- January 5, 2017
There are so many “new and improved” ideas in society these days that it’s hard to even bat an eye at them anymore. But every so often one surfaces that still evokes a confused headshake and a “Wait… what?!” response. I had one of these the other day when someone called my attention to a
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Why Is School Compulsory?0
- Education
- January 4, 2017
School has nothing to do with freedom. First, there are state laws mandating that you have either attended school or have learned the very specific kinds of things you’d learn in school. That form of education is not a choice: it is legally compulsory. But schooling is culturally compulsory as well. That’s what Austrian philosopher
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Psychologist: Society Experiencing a ‘Devaluation of Masculinity’0
- Culture
- January 4, 2017
A number of years ago, my father was assisting in a program for young inner-city children when he was given a particularly rambunctious five-year-old boy as his especial charge for the day. He stayed on the little boy throughout the morning, firmly redirecting his focus and energy countless times. As the program came to a
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