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Why You Should Read Almost EVERYTHING Written by One Author 0
- Education
- March 31, 2016
The overwhelming emphasis in education today is on diversity. No, I’m not just speaking about the ideology of diversity so often attacked by conservatives. In this post, I’m principally speaking about the diversity in teachers and materials. The modern ideal is for students to switch out teachers each year—and beginning in middle school or high
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The UN’s Ridiculously Biased Human Rights Report 0
- Politics
- March 31, 2016
Via Anne Bayefsky at Fox News: According to the United Nations, the most evil country in the world today is Israel. On March 24, 2016, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) wrapped up its annual meeting in New York by condemning only one country for violating women’s rights anywhere on the planet
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Why FDR was against Public Employee Unions 0
- Economics
- March 31, 2016
In the case Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, the Supreme Court announced a 4-4 vote on March 29, 2016. The tie was due to the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. For teachers unions around the country it was a great victory that would have likely not happened. Here is how The New York Times describes
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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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