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Should We Try Separating School and Sports?0
- August 5, 2015
Like many school districts across the country, Virginia’s Fairfax County school district is struggling with budget shortfalls. Rather large budget shortfalls. As in $50 – $100 million budget shortfalls. Monday found the district trying to figure out where to make cuts: “A task force looking to cut as much as $100 million from the budget
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A Little-Known Statistic about America’s Education System 0
- August 5, 2015
By now you’ve most likely heard that America’s education system outspends all but a few countries in the world, while at the same time our students’ proficiency in reading and math has flatlined. What you probably haven’t heard is that since 1939, the number of public school districts in America has decreased by almost 90%!
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How is Liberty Lost?0
- August 4, 2015
Many Americans feel that their liberties are being continuously eroded through government overreach and overregulation. But the following quotation from the eighteenth-century British statesman Edmund Burke makes one wonder: has the government’s erosion of liberty been preceded by the failure over time of Americans to live freely? Burke writes: “What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?
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Phrase of the Day: Nostalgie de la Boue 0
- August 4, 2015
Tom Wolfe, probably most famous for authoring The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff, has a fascinating explanation of the phrase in his book Radical Chic. In it, Wolfe lampoons wealthy, New York socialites of the 1970s for embracing groups like the Black Panthers who ultimately wanted to upend the social order that
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Check Out David Foster Wallace’s Course Syllabus 0
- August 3, 2015
With the July 31 release of the biopic The End of the Tour, the late author David Foster Wallace is once again in the news. Wallace is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time named one of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. For your interest, here is a link
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Is Our Education System Putting Our Country At Risk?0
- August 3, 2015
Below is the opening statement of “A Nation at Risk,” a 1983 document from Ronald Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education that warned of the urgent need to right the ship of the American education system: “Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being
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