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  • The Education System Isn’t Designed for Smart Kids

    The Education System Isn’t Designed for Smart Kids2

    Sometimes, something that’s right in front of you can escape your attention. Over the past five years I’ve looked at countless student performance numbers, and almost always, my attention goes to the large percentages of students who are performing below grade level in reading, math, history, etc. I see these numbers as evidence of the

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  • Obamacare Failing Before Our Eyes

    Obamacare Failing Before Our Eyes0

    Health care insurance premiums will increase significantly next year as a result of the Affordable Care Act, and many consumers will be left with access to only a single insurance provider, according to administration officials. Arizona will see the biggest spike in prices (a whopping 116 percent), while Oklahoma will see a spike of 69 percent and Tennessee,

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  • Millennial Explains Why She Can No Longer Use the Word ‘Boyfriend’

    Millennial Explains Why She Can No Longer Use the Word ‘Boyfriend’0

    As if another example of our culture’s narcissism were needed, twenty-something writer Elizabeth Sherman has taken to the pages of The Washington Post to complain that she doesn’t have a term for her boyfriend. Why? Because according to her, the word “boyfriend” isn’t good enough, and society hasn’t provided a new, better one yet. “Cory

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  • C.S. Lewis Explains How Governments Create ‘Tame Human Animals’

    C.S. Lewis Explains How Governments Create ‘Tame Human Animals’0

    Have you ever considered what type of school you would send your child to if you didn’t have to worry about cost? That question is one which EdChoice annually asks the American public. This year, they found that 83 percent of parents have a child attending public schools, but only 28 percent would keep that

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  • America Used to Elect its Presidents Way Differently

    America Used to Elect its Presidents Way Differently0

    For the last year and a half, Americans have watched political contenders fly around the country explaining why he or she should be president of the United States. But it was not always done this way (and I’m not talking about airplanes). For the first half-century of our republic’s existence, one was not supposed to

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  • 5 Reasons Parents Want Homework to Disappear

    5 Reasons Parents Want Homework to Disappear0

    Earlier this year, Texas teacher Brandy Young told parents she would not be giving homework throughout the year. Instead, Ms. Young encouraged families to spend homework time doing things together. The note went viral, suggesting that American parents are not big fans of homework. Neither, it seems, are parents in Spain. They have designated every

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  • Univ. Announces Essay Contest on Child Welfare in Pedophile’s Honor

    Univ. Announces Essay Contest on Child Welfare in Pedophile’s Honor0

    The title of this essay offers news that is untrue. It satirizes the truth in order to make a critical point. Recently the Paterno Fellows Program announced an essay contest on ethical values, which is open to all Penn State University students. The program is named in honor of Joe Paterno, who was an English

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  • The Myth of the Disappearing Book

    The Myth of the Disappearing Book0

    After years of sales growth, major publishers reported a fall in their e-book sales for the first time this year, introducing new doubts about the potential of e-books in the publishing industry. A Penguin executive even admitted recently that the e-books hype may have driven unwise investment, with the company losing too much confidence in

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  • Students Want Prof Fired for Questioning ‘Diversity’

    Students Want Prof Fired for Questioning ‘Diversity’0

    Anthony Esolen, a professor at Providence College and translator of classic works, is under fire for writing an essay critical of diversity. The essay, entitled “My College Succumbed to the Totalitarian Diversity Cult,” was published in Crisis Magazine in September. You can read it here. Done reading? If so, you might be wondering what all the fuss

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