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The College Textbook Racket 0
- Culture
- March 7, 2017
The business of selling college textbooks is a racket. As Ernie Smith of Atlas Obscura notes, it has a long history. Every academic year a new edition of practically every college textbook is released by the publisher. The prices of college textbooks are horrendously high, sometimes in excess of $200. Since textbooks are required reading
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Which States Spend the Most Per Student?0
- Economics
- March 7, 2017
When it comes to choosing a place to live, most parents select their home with a wary eye cast toward the schools the neighborhood offers. Although it’s not often uttered outright, conventional wisdom suggests that the more expensive your neighborhood – or the more property taxes you pay – the better the schools. But schools
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Legislation Would Reintroduce the Bible to Public Schools 0
- Culture
- March 6, 2017
In 1963, the Supreme Court removed official Bible readings from America’s schools. Since that time, almost everything related to religious or biblical literacy in education has been questioned on grounds of separation of church and state. But one state is questioning the wisdom of this removal. According to U.S. News and World Report, the Kentucky
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Why Do People Sleepwalk?0
- Education
- March 6, 2017
Last night, most of us went to the safety and comfort of our beds before drifting off to a night’s sleep. For some, this was the last conscious action before an episode of sleepwalking. Recent research from Stanford University shows that up to 4 per cent of adults might have had such an experience. In
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Would Students Benefit From More Hands-On Learning?0
- Culture
- March 6, 2017
One Saturday afternoon a number of years ago, my family received a call from my uncle, an amateur beekeeper. He had just harvested his hives and wondered if we were interested in helping with the extracting process. We took him up on the offer and spent the rest of the evening learning how honey makes
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Does Empathy Have a ‘Dark Side’?0
- Culture
- March 6, 2017
Is it possible to run out of empathy? That’s the question many are asking in the wake of the U.S. presidential election. Thousands have marched on streets and airports to encourage others to expand their empathy for women, minorities and refugees. Others have argued that liberals lack empathy for the plight of rural Americans. Against
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