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  • Tim Allen Show Roasts Political Correctness in Academia

    Tim Allen Show Roasts Political Correctness in Academia0

    Tim Allen has become one of TV’s biggest stars by embracing his Everyman qualities. The former Home Improvement actor is now in his sixth season on ABC’s Last Man Standing, a show that could have been a spinoff of his Tim “the Tool Man” character. Like Tim Taylor, Mike Baxter is a “man’s man”: plain-speaking,

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  • Take the PISA Test

    Take the PISA Test0

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  • Modern Math Problem vs. 1912 Arithmetic Problem

    Modern Math Problem vs. 1912 Arithmetic Problem0

    When commentators discuss issues such as the recent PISA exam, they focus largely on results, including which country came in first and whether or not scores fell or increased since the previous assessment. What they often overlook, however, is content. The PISA exam website offers a glimpse into this content, however, so I decided to

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  • Media’s Hit Job on Chip and Joanna Gaines is Dangerous

    Media’s Hit Job on Chip and Joanna Gaines is Dangerous0

    By now most people have probably heard about BuzzFeed’s odd story on Chip and Joanna Gaines, co-hosts of HGTV’s hit show Fixer Upper. In case you somehow missed it, Brandon Ambrosino offers a tidy summary of BuzzFeed writer Kate Aurthur’s 1,200-word story at the Washington Post: Two popular celebrities might oppose same-sex marriage because the pastor of the

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  • How to Actually Learn Latin

    How to Actually Learn Latin0

    A growing number of students and adults today are expressing a desire to learn Latin. For over a thousand years, this ancient language was one of the building blocks of Western education. But in recent decades, there has been a concerted effort to remove Latin from curricula in schools across America and Europe.   This

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  • Why Schools Shouldn’t Teach Generic Critical-Thinking

    Why Schools Shouldn’t Teach Generic Critical-Thinking0

    Being an air-traffic controller is not easy. At the heart of the job is a cognitive ability called ‘situational awareness’ that involves ‘the continuous extraction of environmental information [and the] integration of this information with prior knowledge to form a coherent mental picture’. Vast amounts of fluid information must be held in the mind and,

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  • Why School Choice Won’t Fix Education

    Why School Choice Won’t Fix Education0

    President-Elect Donald Trump has announced Betsy DeVos as his choice to head the U.S. Department of Education. The pick is a clear signal that the Trump administration is intent on pursuing school choice, a fact that the wailing and gnashing of teeth among the self-interested educational establishment would seem to confirm. But it is important

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  • Why Gay Men in Relationships Should Think About HIV

    Why Gay Men in Relationships Should Think About HIV0

    In a relationship there are myriad issues to manage. Who walks the dog? Does his mother like me? Whom are we supporting to win RuPaul’s “Drag Race All Stars 2”? But there is one issue that can often be harder to manage – how do we as a couple deal with HIV? Gay men and

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  • The Historical Origin of ‘Political Correctness’

    The Historical Origin of ‘Political Correctness’0

    In the November issue of Claremont Review of Books, Angelo M. Codevilla wrote a deep-dive article on the rise of political correctness in America. The phrase “politically correct” is ubiquitous in America today. I complain about political correctness now and again, but I’d never given any thought to the phrase’s origins. Codevilla, however, offers a fascinating

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