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Do Teachers Really Work Less Than Other Professionals?2
- Education
- June 12, 2017
“Teachers receive a full-time salary with great benefits for only working 9 months out of the year.” I frequently see some iteration of the above in the comments section of Intellectual Takeout’s articles on education. It’s usually trotted out when another commenter tries to make the claim that teachers are underpaid or underappreciated. But is
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Love Your Grammar, But Don’t Be Obnoxious 0
- Culture
- June 12, 2017
This week, the financial press reported the downfall of a high-profile grammar pedant, Professor Paul Romer, the World Bank’s chief economist, who was hoist(ed) with his own pedantic petard. He is being replaced as head of the bank’s research arm after he demanded that his colleagues write succinct, clear, direct emails, presentations and reports in
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Students Wearing Trump Shirts Censored in School Yearbook 0
- Culture
- June 12, 2017
Via the Washington Post: “When 17-year-old Grant Berardo wanted to wear a political T-shirt on school picture day in October, his parents told him it was fine. His “TRUMP Make America Great Again!” shirt did not violate the dress code at Wall Township High School in central New Jersey because it did not reference drugs
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Why Cambridge is Striking the Words ‘Brilliance’ and ‘Genius’ from Approved Vocabulary 0
- Culture
- June 12, 2017
In case you haven’t noticed, minorities – or groups of repressed individuals – seem to hold a large amount of sway these days. In fact, it seems that almost every gender, race, or religious sect is a minority group that deserves special privilege for the repression they experience. For some reason, women are still perceived
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Oxford Changing Tests to Help Women 0
- Culture
- June 12, 2017
Via the College Fix: “Oxford University has decided to let students take a final exam at home — and they’ve switched it from a test to an essay — to help women do better on it, several newspapers in England report. Apparently women do better at take-home style assignments while men, so-called risk takers, do
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Study: Babies Can See Faces Before They See the Light of Day 0
- Culture
- June 9, 2017
In opening The Atlantic this morning, an interesting article caught my eye. The title proclaimed: “Fetuses Prefer Face-Like Images Even in the Womb.” I was intrigued. To be perfectly frank, I don’t believe I had ever thought about the fact that a baby in the womb might be able to see, let alone recognize shapes
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