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Are Colleges Giving Out Easy ‘As’?0
- Education
- March 31, 2016
Last week, we discussed how the SAT is quietly being dumbed down. Such news may cause some to wonder if students will have more of a struggle in college. But if a new study by Stuart Rojstaczer and Chris Healy is any indication, the dumbing down of the SAT is simply in step with the
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Something Pro-Life and Pro-Choice People Can Agree On?0
- Politics
- March 31, 2016
This week, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested during an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that women who have abortions should be “punished” in some form. Of course, that evoked outrage from pro-choice voters. But it also riled most pro-life voters, too. It’s important to understand why, if only to keep our facts straight. The
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How Tetris Reveals the Stunning Power of the Human Brain 0
- Culture
- March 31, 2016
We know the human brain is more complex than the world’s most powerful computers. The most recent attempt to use a supercomputer to simulate the activity of a human brain showed that it took 40 minutes to process the data of a single second of brainwaves. Still, it’s often difficult to see the amazing powers
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Survey: Parents Are Going Into Debt to Spoil Their Children 0
- Family
- March 31, 2016
Parents have a moral obligation to care for their children’s needs to the best of their abilities. But what happens when parents endanger their children’s basic necessities for the sake of their children’s wants? According to a recent article on a T. Rowe Price survey in the Financial Advisor, that is a situation that almost
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When Socialism Works 0
- Culture
- March 31, 2016
Because of Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency, many Americans are asking if “democratic socialism” is possible. Can there be a form of socialism that really includes the voices of all the people? In a March 17 feature at FEE.org, economist Sandy Ikeda offered some strong reasons to doubt it (see “‘Democratic Socialism’ Is a
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This Mother Taught Her Children to Read at a 12th Grade Level in ONE Day!1
- Education
- March 31, 2016
When it comes to education, learning to read is probably at the top of everyone’s list in terms of importance. Yet learning to read has become a long and arduous process through which parents and teachers hope and pray their students will make it. The long and arduous process of learning to read raises the
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