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  • Why the U.S. Education Secretary is Wrong on Homeschooling

    Why the U.S. Education Secretary is Wrong on Homeschooling0

    At a recent breakfast for reporters, U.S. Secretary of Education John King was asked for his opinion on homeschooling. The Secretary’s most worrisome concern about the movement? A lack of socialization. Education Week reports: “[King] worries that homeschoolers may not get the kind of interaction with other adults or much experience with their peers, ‘unless

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  • Parents Have Been Demoted to Deputy School Teachers

    Parents Have Been Demoted to Deputy School Teachers0

    I was giving a talk at Florida Gulf Coast University the other night near Fort Myers when I noticed a flyer on the door of the lecture hall. The sign (I wish I had gotten a picture now) read: “PARENT FREE ZONE.” I chuckled at first, thinking it was more of a tongue-in-cheek joke to

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  • How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Live

    How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Live0

    Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford professor of Professor of European Studies, recently published a magisterial book, Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World. We hear many diatribes for free speech (and some against); Ash supplies background knowledge about how the internet changes the speech issues we face and what we can do to protect free speech in

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  • Free Sh*t Matters?

    Free Sh*t Matters?0

    Is it reasonable to be angry at legitimate police brutality and to want justice? Absolutely. But let’s be honest about what we’ve seen play out too many times in America. Building on the anger surrounding the 2012-2013 Trayvon Martin trial results, things really kicked off with Ferguson in 2014. Before any real details were known

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  • Being Intelligent Doesn’t Require You To Be a Jerk

    Being Intelligent Doesn’t Require You To Be a Jerk0

    Intellectual types are usually kind of jerks, right? At least, that’s the prevalent stereotype. We know that Mark Zuckerberg screwed over his good friend Eduardo Saverin. We’ve heard that Jeff Bezos of Amazon delivers some harsh insults to people in meetings. There are numerous complaints from professors that many of their academic colleagues are unpleasant

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  • 5 Diseases You’re More Likely to Develop by Not Sleeping Enough

    5 Diseases You’re More Likely to Develop by Not Sleeping Enough0

    If you haven’t learned yet through personal experience, not getting enough sleep can be one of the most detrimental things to a person’s overall well-being. In fact, various different studies have discovered that prolonged periods of sleep deprivation can have devastating health consequences. Here are five diseases and chronic conditions that have been linked to

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