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Social-Emotional Learning Is Hurting Students 1
- Education, MomThink
- August 7, 2024
Social-emotional learning (SEL) has been in vogue in education circles for decades. Following its precepts, teachers, counselors, and administrators encourage students to look inward and focus on their feelings. The result? A generation of young people who can’t stop thinking about their emotions, leaving them incredibly fragile. But that’s not what many of the experts
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The Forgotten Father of Modern Fantasy Literature 4
- Featured, Literature
- August 6, 2024
George MacDonald had a colossal impact on some of the most brilliant early-20th-century writers, including C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and J.R.R. Tolkien. He was a Scottish minister, poet, and fairytale writer, but today, much of his work has been abandoned. It’s time to shake the dust from MacDonald’s magical and redemptive works, many of which
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How to Diversify Your Child’s Potential 0
- Education, Family, MomThink
- August 6, 2024
Investors are always told to “diversify” their portfolios. Don’t put all your money in stocks — what if the market plunges? But don’t put all your money in bonds — you’ll miss the market rallies. And for God’s sake, don’t put all your money in one company. Or, to put it an older way: Don’t
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Identity Politics: Bad for Business, But Good for Management 1
- Economics, Culture
- August 6, 2024
In a market economy, businesses are supposed to pursue profits. Yet in recent years, many big corporations—including Disney, Target, and Bud Light—have become embroiled in costly scandals involving identity politics. As this year’s Pride Month is over, it’s worth asking why so many big businesses take such strong stances on culture war issues, even when
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Does Drinking Dairy Make You Racist? A Milky Mirage of Politicized Academia 3
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Science
- August 5, 2024
The Daily Mail recently reported that academics at the History of Science Museum in Oxford are going to study the “political nature” of milk. They claim that milk is a “Northern European obsession” that has been forced on other cultures, and the belief that milk is an important part of your diet is a “white
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Why Do People Mostly Stop Learning After College?7
- Education
- August 5, 2024
Why is it that, upon finishing college and entering the workforce, the vast majority of people seem to just stop learning? Is education a period of your life to be gotten over with, a burden that, once borne, is to be set aside for better things? This certainly seems to be the way we think
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