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  • Should Advanced Math Be Optional?

    Should Advanced Math Be Optional?0

    Advanced math is hard. It’s keeping people from graduating high school and college. So, we should drop it. At least that’s what Andrew Hacker, author of The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions, argued in a recent interview with NPR: “I’m saying: No, we don’t need that many people studying mathematics. We’re shooting ourselves in

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  • Why People Should Still Study Latin

    Why People Should Still Study Latin0

    Why would anybody bother to study Latin anymore? Its value isn’t readily apparent, which is probably why it has largely dropped out of curriculum in this country. Modern language study is more about which language will get you ahead in your career or help you vacation to other countries. Latin is not likely to help you

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  • Tina Fey Savages Hollywood Hypocrisy

    Tina Fey Savages Hollywood Hypocrisy0

    If you’re wondering what explains some of the Trump phenomenon, look no further than the hypocrisy of our elites. Middle America rightly sees the hypocrisy of being chastised by entertainers, politicians, media elite, ivory tower educators, and others who say one thing and do another, who go on about greed but live the gilded life.

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  • New Poll Suggests Reading Strengthens Family Relationships

    New Poll Suggests Reading Strengthens Family Relationships0

    A recent Harris Poll shows that reading to children has more benefits than simply getting them excited about reading on their own. Parent-child reading times are also a great facilitator of family relationships: “Adults who say their parents read to them every day when they were young are especially likely to report very strong relationships

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  • Tocqueville: Love of Equality Leads to Hatred

    Tocqueville: Love of Equality Leads to Hatred0

    It’s said that some of the fiercest fights in academia are over the narrowest of differences. It seems that Alexis de Tocqueville saw the same problem developing within democracy as the quest for equality grew. A French aristocrat, he came to America in the early 1800s and studied it extensively, composing his reflections in Democracy

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  • 2015: the year when Italy’s demographic malaise became apparent

    2015: the year when Italy’s demographic malaise became apparent0

    Recently there has come to light yet more news that suggests that yes, Europe is indeed dying. According to Reuters, for the first time in three decades the Italian population declined (the last population drop was a very small one in 1986, and in effect Italy’s population has been growing continually since 1952). The population

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