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To Empower Students with Effective Writing Skills, Handwriting Matters 0
- Culture
- August 3, 2017
Writing is virtually part of everything we do. It is one of the most powerful tools used to communicate our knowledge, emotions and beliefs, across distance and time. Writing is also a fundamental part of the school curriculum as an outcome and as a means to demonstrate learning across subjects and grades. However, the writing
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Why Planned Parenthood Should be Defunded 0
- Economics
- August 3, 2017
Planned Parenthood has 56 independent local affiliates that operate more than 600 centers across the country. According to Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report, 41 percent ($555 million) of the organization’s revenue comes from government reimbursements and grants. Planned Parenthood is also the nation’s largest abortion provider, performing more than 320,000 abortions a year — more than 30
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Why Americans Are Such Suckers for Propaganda 0
- Culture
- August 3, 2017
To many Americans, high school seems like a normal part of life. To not attend is unheard of; to fail to graduate is a death sentence for one’s future. But what we often forget is that the modern high school is a relatively new concept. As Paul Beston notes in a recent article for City
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6 Brilliant Authors Who Died Penniless 0
- Culture
- August 3, 2017
The many authors we hail today as cultural and literary geniuses are often assumed to have been recognized as such during their lifetimes, living successful – at least financially successful – lives. However, that assumption is often not the case. The five authors below were not as popular during their lives as they are now
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Why Eating Healthy is so Damn Hard (and Arguably Pointless)0
- Entertainment
- August 3, 2017
About 15 years ago, when I was in graduate school, a roommate of mine watched in horror as I salted a slice of pizza. He was a medical student, and many intelligent educators and textbooks had instructed him on the dangers of table salt. “Do you know what that salt is doing to your body?”
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Millennial Dog Moms Now Refusing to Vaccinate 0
- Culture
- August 3, 2017
Every now and then, I come across an article that causes me to have a “Wait, is this satire?” moment. Those moments have always ended with a laugh and the realization that yes, said article is indeed a joke. Until today, that is. The article that caught my attention was produced by Slate and entitled
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