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Will de Blasio’s Universal Pre-K Hurt Kids Instead of Help?0
- Culture
- September 9, 2016
Given the recent interest in starting universal preschool programs in states and cities around the country, it’s perhaps no surprise that The Atlantic highlighted the one begun by New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. As The Atlantic describes it, de Blasio’s preschool program is the great equalizer which gives the same goods and services
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Why Modern Education is Doomed to Die 0
- Culture
- September 9, 2016
One of the great transitions in education in the past fifty years has been the increased emphasis on the so-called STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – and a corresponding diminishing of the place of the traditional liberal arts or humanities, especially literature, history and philosophy. This has been due in part to
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BREAKING: Matt Lauer Asked Hillary Clinton Tough Questions 0
- Politics
- September 9, 2016
You can tell it’s the silly season when journalists and media organizations are freaking out because a journalist asked a presidential candidate pointed questions. Earlier this week during a Commander-In-Chief forum on NBC, Matt Lauer asked Hillary Clinton about her use of email from a clandestine server during her tenure at the State Department. Clinton
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Dr: Tech destroys kid’s ability to ‘distinguish reality’0
- Culture
- September 9, 2016
I recently ran across a cartoon which depicted two boys glancing out the window while playing on their digital devices. The word balloon read, “It’s sad to see others playing outside. They must not be fortunate enough to have a phone.” Yet even while many exclaim what a shame it is that children are increasingly
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Doctor: Are We Over-Vaccinating Small Children?0
- Family
- September 8, 2016
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Stop Dumbing Down Books for Teens 0
- Education
- September 8, 2016
During my senior year AP English class in high school, we read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It was brutal. I thought I was a pretty good reader because I had worked my way through most of Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Leo Tolstoy, but I struggled to get through Heart of Darkness. To this day,
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