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  • Should We Stop Segregating Students by Age?

    Should We Stop Segregating Students by Age?1

    It’s commonly believed by Americans that allowing students to skip grades is unhealthy for their social and emotional development. However, an article in this month’s Scientific American suggests the opposite. The article describes the work of the “Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth” (SMPY), which over the past 45 years has identified 5,000 gifted individuals and

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  • Dr: Tech destroys kid’s ability to ‘distinguish reality’

    Dr: Tech destroys kid’s ability to ‘distinguish reality’0

    I recently ran across a cartoon which depicted two boys glancing out the window while playing on their digital devices. The word balloon read, “It’s sad to see others playing outside. They must not be fortunate enough to have a phone.” Yet even while many exclaim what a shame it is that children are increasingly

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  • BREAKING: Matt Lauer Asked Hillary Clinton Tough Questions

    BREAKING: Matt Lauer Asked Hillary Clinton Tough Questions0

    You can tell it’s the silly season when journalists and media organizations are freaking out because a journalist asked a presidential candidate pointed questions. Earlier this week during a Commander-In-Chief forum on NBC, Matt Lauer asked Hillary Clinton about her use of email from a clandestine server during her tenure at the State Department. Clinton

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  • Study: Students Learn Better from Hot Teachers

    Study: Students Learn Better from Hot Teachers0

    When it comes to America’s educational woes, maybe the problem isn’t a ?“dumbed-down” curriculum or a lack of student effort… Maybe the problem is that there are too many ugly teachers? Okay, that’s just a bit of an exaggeration. However, a new study conducted by University of Nevada researchers and published in the Journal of General

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  • Stop Dumbing Down Books for Teens

    Stop Dumbing Down Books for Teens0

    During my senior year AP English class in high school, we read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It was brutal. I thought I was a pretty good reader because I had worked my way through most of Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Leo Tolstoy, but I struggled to get through Heart of Darkness. To this day,

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  • Spending on College Sports is Out of Control

    Spending on College Sports is Out of Control0

    th college football season upon us, this is a good time to consider again the allure that fielding winning teams in the big-money sports (football and basketball) has for many higher education leaders. Just as many students are convinced that getting into an elite college is essential to their futures, so many college presidents are

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  • Pew: 1 in 4 Americans Didn’t Read a Book Last Year

    Pew: 1 in 4 Americans Didn’t Read a Book Last Year0

    While on vacation this summer, I had the pleasure of visiting Biltmore Estate, the largest home in America. After the tour, my companions and I took a poll on the favorite room and found that the library was the winner. And with more than 20,000 books bound in leather and gold, it’s not surprising that

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  • Must a Liberal Baker Make a ‘Trump 2016’ Cake?

    Must a Liberal Baker Make a ‘Trump 2016’ Cake?0

    The headline is reminiscent of a hypothetical question that drew attention at the Libertarian Party’s presidential debate earlier this year: Must a Jewish baker make a Nazi cake? In this case, however, the question is not hypothetical. Via KSLA News out of Louisiana: A Facebook post shared by a Bossier Parish teen is getting a

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  • Intellectual Takeout Quiz: Are You Religiously Literate?

    Intellectual Takeout Quiz: Are You Religiously Literate?0

    As the Western world becomes more secular, religious knowledge is on the decline.  At Intellectual Takeout, however, we feel that educated people should possess some basic knowledge of each of the world’s religions–even if they aren’t practicing members of any particular faith.  To get an idea of how up-to-speed you are on the topic of

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