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Frog and Toad: Arnold Lobel’s Little Gems 0
- Culture
- March 24, 2016
Every child should read Arnold Lobel’s stories of Frog and Toad. These stories are pure, unashamed delight. Once upon a time, all children’s stories were a pleasant romp, an indulgence in something lovely. Think of Mother Goose, The Wind in the Willows, The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan. As our times have
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Former Teacher: 7 Ways Schools are Creating ‘Empty’ Children 2
- Culture
- March 24, 2016
In the early 1990s, New York Teacher of the Year, John Taylor Gatto, threw in the towel on teaching with his famous I Quit, I Think letter to the Wall Street Journal. Gatto’s reason for quitting was simple. He could no longer justify teaching “a curriculum of confusion, class position, arbitrary justice, vulgarity, rudeness, disrespect
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If Parents Stopped Enabling Their Kids, Maybe There Wouldn’t be as much Student Loan Debt 0
- Economics
- March 24, 2016
A recent Star Tribune article nails a major issue in the student debt crisis: Too many parents are enabling their children by helping them take out massive loans for colleges they can’t afford. This has caused a lot of young people to cripple their financial futures in pursuit of a goal many later discover was
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Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ and the Decline of Knowledge in the West 0
- Culture
- March 24, 2016
The other day, I heard an announcer on a local classical radio station gently chide his listeners, saying, “It’s almost Easter, and I haven’t had one request from our audience for selections from Handel’s Messiah!” For those who think of the Messiah as a Christmas tradition, this announcer’s request seems a bit odd. But historically
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Chess Champ Explains Trump Rise in a Single Sentence 1
- Culture
- March 24, 2016
Russian political activist Garry Kasparov decried the West’s “complacency and retreat” from the fight against Islamic terrorism in the wake of the terrorist attack in Brussels. In a Facebook post published Tuesday, Kasparov, a grandmaster chess player and former world champion, began by hinting that the West would have to get serious in its fight
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Tyrion Lannister for Supreme Court!0
- Education
- March 24, 2016
The routine is old. We’ve seen it before. A television host holds a mic in front of a passerby who willfully displays how clueless he or she is about general knowledge. It was funny when Leno was doing it 20 years ago. And I found Jimmy Kimmel’s recent “Lie Witness News” segment that aired last
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