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Three-Quarters of Parents ‘Adulting’ for Their Grown Children 0
- Culture
- March 14, 2019
I ran across a fascinating little chart in the New York Times the other day. It described the percentage of parents who take on responsibilities that their adult children should be doing. Some of the more unbelievable ones include wake-up calls (15 percent), contacting a child’s employer (11 percent), and contacting a professor to discuss
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7 Reasons Why the Equality Act Is Anything But 0
- Culture
- March 14, 2019
Most Americans don’t want a nationwide bathroom requirement, health care mandate, or “preferred pronoun” law based on gender identity, but congressional Democrats seem to think it’s time to impose them. Nancy Pelosi delivered Wednesday on her promise to introduce the so-called Equality Act, which would elevate sexual orientation and gender identity to protected classes in
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Is It Time to Dump the SAT?0
- Education
- March 13, 2019
Several years ago, a bright 25-year-old told me about her time tutoring those taking the SAT tests in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She worked hard to prep young people for these college admissions tests, demanded much of her students, and set the bar high for herself and them. One young man, a wealthy foreign-born
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Lawmakers Want to Give Voting Rights to Teens They Treat Like Toddlers with Compulsory Schooling Law 0
- Education
- March 13, 2019
Newly-elected US Rep. Ayanna Pressley caused a stir this month when she filed an amendment to lower the legal federal voting age from 18 to 16. While Pressley’s amendment failed to pass, the action brought attention to the place of teenagers in society. Regardless of how we may feel about the role of the voter,
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‘Immediate Harm to Millions’: AFL-CIO Tears Apart Green New Deal 0
- Economics
- March 13, 2019
The largest organization of labor unions in the U.S. slammed the Green New Deal for combating climate change by threatening the livelihoods of millions of Americans. The AFL-CIO sent a letter on Friday to Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, the two lawmakers leading the Green New Deal push in Congress.
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College Admission Scandal Grew out of a System That Was Ripe for Corruption 0
- Education
- March 13, 2019
As part of the “Operation Varsity Blues” case that federal prosecutors announced March 12, dozens of people – including Hollywood actresses and wealthy businessmen – stand accused of having bought their children’s way into elite colleges and universities. As a researcher who has studied how young athletes get admitted to college, I don’t see a
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