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Two for the Price of One: Why More Schools Should Offer College Degrees in High School 2
- Education
- November 2, 2018
The New York Times recently caught my eye with the following article title: “A High School Education and College Degree All in One.” Such a promise sounds almost too good to be true, like one of those “work from home for $40 an hour” signs plastered everywhere. Yet, the promise is real, and students taking
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How to Avoid Becoming a Self-Righteous Virtue Signaler 0
- Culture
- November 2, 2018
Here is an online proponent for gun control, a man ignorant of the difference between a shotgun and a .22 rifle, decrying millions of gun owners as Nazis. There sits the woman who makes a point of telling her dinner companions, some of whom are eating the café’s steak special, that she’s a vegan. At
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Think You’re Bad at Math? You May Suffer from ‘Math Trauma’1
- November 1, 2018
I teach people how to teach math, and I’ve been working in this field for 30 years. Across those decades, I’ve met many people who suffer from varying degrees of math trauma – a form of debilitating mental shutdown when it comes to doing mathematics. When people share their stories with me, there are common
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New Voter Fraud Cases Show Need to Secure Our Elections 0
- Culture
- November 1, 2018
The midterm elections are less than a week away, and that means that ensuring the integrity of the electoral process is more important than ever. If Americans cannot say with certainty that their votes will be counted, that the process is free of fraud, and the outcome is valid, what incentive do they have to
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The Despair of Stephen Hawking’s Inconsistencies 1
- Religion
- November 1, 2018
Stephen Hawking’s own personal brief history of time is up. But he left as he lived, feisty, modern and… depressing. And without finding the Grand Unified theory he was famous for being about to discover. Hawking was once equivocal about the meaning of life or lack thereof. In his popular 1988 book A Brief History of
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When It Comes to Gender, Science and Political Correctness Don’t Mix 0
- Culture
- November 1, 2018
In my junior high and high school science courses we were taught that whether you were a male or female depended on your chromosomal make-up. Females had two X chromosomes (XX) and males had an X and a Y chromosome (XY). There were exceptions to this rule, we were told. Those with Turner’s Syndrome had
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