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Over 6,000 Title IX Complaints Filed by One Person Last Year 0
- Education
- June 26, 2017
Even modest and long-overdue budget cuts draw criticism. The Trump administration proposed cutting the budget of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) from $108.5 million to $106.7 million — a “minuscule amount,” notes education researcher George Leef. Yet the liberal columnist Colbert King claimed this tiny 1.66% cut would have somehow “gutted” civil rights
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Four Feminists Who Abandoned Feminism 1
- Culture
- June 26, 2017
Though many women call themselves feminists for a variety of reasons, not every woman who adopts the title sticks with it. Both adopting and dropping the label come with political and social assumptions and consequences, and for that reason some choose to avoid the debate altogether. However, the women below have been involved in the
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Study Finds That Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Is Costing Jobs 0
- Economics
- June 26, 2017
In 2014, the uber-liberal Seattle City Council passed a law mandating that all businesses in the city raise their minimum wage to $15 by 2021. The most noted advocate of the law is the openly Socialist councilmember Kshama Sawant, who believes it will help “tackle the chasm of income inequality and social injustice.” The law
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Want answers? Learn to ask the right questions 0
- June 26, 2017
I’ve recently published a book on weight loss, and one of the questions put to me was: what qualifies you to write on this subject? Why didn’t you refer to the latest scientific research, or ask experts for their opinions? My response was that in philosophy we learn to ask the questions of ourselves. Philosophy
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5 Tips on How to Successfully Educate Children 0
- Education
- June 26, 2017
Sometimes it seems that education tips and theories are a dime a dozen. This is particularly so in the modern age, when parents are inundated with recommendations on the best schools and educational practices. The challenging thing about the proliferation of information is that it becomes difficult to discern simple and straightforward truth. It is
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Hillary Supporter: Fixation on Trump is Ruining College Education 0
- Culture
- June 26, 2017
During a recent speech given at Intellectual Takeout’s Spring Gala, author Charles Murray recalled a conversation he had with his daughter just over 10 years ago, when she was a student at Middlebury College. At that time, Murray asked his daughter if she had been able to determine the political leanings of her professors. His
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