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Can Homeschooling Break the ‘Glass Ceiling’?0
- Culture
- November 22, 2017
The BBC recently held the “100 Women Challenge,” which highlighted various females and their success in breaking the glass ceiling. One of these women is Camille Eddy, a 23-year-old STEM major who is now interning in Silicon Valley as a mechanical engineer. Camille realizes that her position as a female in the typically male
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Meet the Woman Who Helped Make Thanksgiving a US Holiday 0
- Culture
- November 22, 2017
For much of the 19th century, Thanksgiving was only celebrated by New Englanders and Northeastern transplants in the upper Midwest and New York. Without the dogged activism of Sarah Josepha Hale—a novelist, poet, and the editor of “Godey’s Lady’s Book,” a lifestyle magazine with an impressive pre-Civil War circulation of 150,000—Thanksgiving may never have become
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What Jeff Bezos Gets Right About Parenting 0
- Culture
- November 22, 2017
Jeff Bezos was recently interviewed by his younger brother, Mark, at the Summit ideas conference in Los Angeles. The nearly hour-long discussion included a loving portrait of their childhood as well as the Amazon founder’s theories on childrearing. For those of us who believe in the importance of greater independence for our children and have
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One-Third of Young Americans Say Complimenting a Woman’s Looks is Sexual Harassment 0
- Culture
- November 21, 2017
It seems we have launched into a full-blown epidemic of sexual misconduct in the short time since the Harvey Weinstein allegations surfaced. Roy Moore, Al Franken, and Charlie Rose are only a few of the individuals who have been outed as allegedly treating women inappropriately in the last several decades. Hearing these accounts is alarming.
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Doctor Explains Why It’s Not Prudish to Encourage Modesty 0
- Culture
- November 21, 2017
When a couple of young female passengers were barred from boarding a United Airlines flight because they were wearing leggings, the internet exploded with accusations of sexism. When high school girls in Los Angeles showed up to school in spaghetti straps and off-the-shoulder tops, the dress code was deemed outdated. And when actress Mayim Bialik
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Politically Correct Myths About Race and Student Misbehavior Shackle Teachers 1
- Education
- November 21, 2017
School officials sometimes refuse to suspend violent or disruptive students just because they are black, and school administrators believe that “too many” black students have already been suspended compared to the number of whites. Former school official Edmund Janko describes how he himself did this, to achieve a veiled racial quota, in a City Journal
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