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Does Homeschooling Give Children More Room to Excel?0
- Education
- March 18, 2016
Many homeschooled children continue to demonstrate impressive academic feats. The latest example is a homeschooled Minnesota teen who became one of a very small number of students to achieve a perfect score on the ACT. As Fox 9 reports, Sam Mansfield scored a 36 on the February ACT. According to the testing service, of the
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Serious Students of History Should Watch Out for These 5 Prejudices 0
- History
- March 18, 2016
No one can completely avoid bringing prejudices to his or her study of history. Nevertheless, some prejudices are more insidious than others, and can be an obstacle to a fruitful use of historical learning. Drawing from the work of Giambattista Vico, philosopher of history R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) names and describes the following 5 prejudices that
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Uh-Oh… This is What Happens When There are Too Many Young People in the World 0
- Economics
- March 18, 2016
According to the headline of an article this month by Somini Sengupta in the New York Times Sunday Review, “The world has a problem: too many young people.” As soon as I saw that I wanted to ask: Too many for whom and for what? It’s easier to cluck about demographic imbalances then to explain
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ISIS commits genocide against Yazidi, Christians, and Shiites 0
- History
- March 18, 2016
The world has watched the evils of ISIS for too many years now. On March 17, Secretary of State John Kerry declared that the United States has officially determined that the group’s actions officially constitute genocide. The move by the State Department follows unanimously passed resolution by the House of Representatives that labeled ISIS atrocities
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Schools are Teaching Kids to Have Emotional “Meta-Moments”?!?0
- Education
- March 18, 2016
One of the hottest topics in modern education is the need to teach kids emotional skills. This year, as the Seattle Times reports, several Seattle school districts are adopting a Yale-developed program called “RULER” (“Recognize, Understand, Label, Express and Regulate emotions”) to teach kids “emotional smarts alongside academics.” The program is predictably bizarre-sounding and touchy-feely. Students
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Psychologist: “Modern Life is Not Good for Mental Health”0
- Culture
- March 18, 2016
The subtitle of Dr. Jean Twenge’s book may say it all: “Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before.” As Jesse Singal explains in a piece for NY Mag, Twenge—a social psychologist at San Diego State University—has spent many years examining why “ever since the 1930s, young people in America
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