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10 Things Schools, Parents and Communities Can Do Now to Prevent School Shootings 0
- Education
- February 16, 2018
After a shooter killed 17 people at a Florida high school, many have expressed frustration at the political hand-wringing over gun control and calls for prayer. As a parent, I understand the desire for practical responses to school shootings. I also absolutely believe the government should do more to prevent such incidents. But the gun
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10 Books You Need to Read Before Graduation 0
- Culture
- February 15, 2018
“If you don’t read good books, you will read bad ones,” C. S. Lewis writes. We may need to update Lewis’s claim for the twenty-first-century reader, for those who do not read good books will not necessarily read bad ones, but may—in not knowing why or what they should read—substitute books entirely with hours of
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Frederick Douglass Knew That Racial Identity Is No Antidote to Racial Injustice 0
- Education
- February 15, 2018
Frederick Douglass, the greatest of all American abolitionists, possibly the greatest American champion of the cause of equal rights, was born 200 years ago in February 1818. Perhaps the infant Douglass arrived on Feb. 14, as he liked to think, remembering a morning in his boyhood when his mother, enslaved as he was, walked miles
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Minnesota Seeks to Insert ‘Social Justice’ in Teacher Licensing 0
- Culture
- February 15, 2018
A newly created Minnesota board is seeking to implement a rule that critics say would introduce “social justice” training to the state’s teacher licensing. The board, the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB), was created after a 2016 audit concluded that the state’s teacher licensing system was “broken.” The new 11-member board is seeking
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Why Amish Romance Novels Are So Popular 0
- Culture
- February 15, 2018
In the “New and Popular” section of my local public library, there are multiple shelves dedicated to Amish romance novels. Yes, you read that correctly: Amish romance novels. As it turns out there’s quite a market, especially among evangelical Christians, for what’s also waggishly known as “bonnet-ripper” fiction. The three most popular authors of Amish
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The Education System Loves Promoting Anti-Bullying… Until Homeschoolers Do the Same 0
- Culture
- February 15, 2018
For many American parents, the idea that their child is talented enough to land a small role in a famous Broadway musical would be enough to burst a few buttons. But imagine that this same child went to Broadway intending to try for a small role and walks away with the lead instead. Now that’s
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