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Removing Statues of Violent Bigots? Start with Che 0
- Culture
- August 22, 2017
Rosario is Argentina’s second oldest city. Located by the Paraná river, it is the home of hard-working people, a busy port, the national flag memorial, and the country’s bitterest football rivalry between Rosario Central and Newell’s Old Boys. It is also the birthplace of Ernesto “Ché” Guevara. In the last fifteen years or so, coincidentally
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The Real Reason Students Today Are So Listless 1
- Culture
- August 22, 2017
In recent years, the rise of high school graduation rates has been met with great exaltation. Naturally, these numbers seem to indicate that all is well in America’s classrooms. But have you ever noticed the odd discrepancy which accompanies these graduation rates? Why is that 83 percent of American students graduated from high school in
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The Quiet Exodus From Mass Schooling 3
- Education
- August 22, 2017
Parents are fed up. As mass schooling becomes more restrictive, more standardized and more far-reaching into a child’s young life, many parents are choosing alternatives. Increasingly, these parents are reclaiming their child’s education and are refocusing learning around children, family, and community in several different ways. With back-to-school time upon us, more than two million
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Scholars Propose Public Schooling for Babies to Fight Inequality 0
- Education
- August 22, 2017
In my years as a music teacher, I learned one very important thing. One could start teaching a child an instrument when they entered kindergarten, but the going would often be slow and the lessons a strain for both teacher and student. Once a child hit age seven, however, things began clicking at a much
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Harvard Prof Calls Out Antifa for Trying to ‘Tear Down America’0
- Culture
- August 22, 2017
Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday that liberals should not treat Antifa members as heroes for tearing down Confederate monuments because they are trying to “tear down America.” “Do not glorify the violent people who are now tearing down the statues. Many of these people, not all of them, many of these people are trying
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The Death of Civic Engagement 0
- Culture
- August 21, 2017
In May, Utah Senator Mike Lee released the first report in his Social Capital Project called What We Do Together: the State of Associational Life in America. According to Lee, the state of associational life in America may be more important than we realize. As American society has changed over the past 40 years, the
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