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  • Is Homeschooling Only for the Elite?

    Is Homeschooling Only for the Elite?0

    The summary of an article in this September’s edition of Boston Magazine reads: “More and more of Boston’s smartest families are opting out of the education system to homeschool their children. Is this the new model for creating elite kids?” The perception used to be that homeschooling was the realm of families primarily motivated by

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  • Beware Those Who Try to Create Utopias

    Beware Those Who Try to Create Utopias0

    There is a persistent temptation among human beings to seek after utopias. In our present world, we can see it in the world government ambitions of some political leaders, or the technocratic ambitions of reformers of the education system, or even certain parents who isolate their children from society in the hopes of preserving their

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  • New Study: Big Kids Love Bedtime Stories, Too

    New Study: Big Kids Love Bedtime Stories, Too0

    Kids think bedtime stories are just for babies, right? Wrong. According to a recent survey conducted by Scholastic in Great Britain, nearly 40% of children ages 6-8 and 30% of children ages 9-11 regretted the fact that their parents stopped reading aloud to them. In the U.S., those numbers are even greater, as shown by

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  • Are We Less Free Than in Times Past?

    Are We Less Free Than in Times Past?0

    • September 28, 2015

    No society is perfect. Yet, it is often assumed that American society is one of progress, and that, on the whole, we are better off than our ancestors. As evidence of this progress, people often point to the increase in life expectancy, educational opportunities, and career options. And, as one highly ranked Facebook comment on

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  • Hollywood Star Became Stay-at-Home Dad After Wife Died of Cancer

    Hollywood Star Became Stay-at-Home Dad After Wife Died of Cancer0

    Actor Rick Moranis was a fixture in many movies I watched growing up – Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Parenthood, Honey I Shrunk the Kids.    And then, suddenly, he wasn’t in any more movies. I had never heard what happened to him until I came across this Mental Floss piece this past weekend.    As it turns

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  • When Poets Were Rock Stars

    When Poets Were Rock Stars0

    • September 26, 2015

    Today we’re accustomed to crowds of 14,000 gathering for a concert or a sporting event.    Not for a poet reading a lecture on literary criticism.    But that indeed is what happened on April 30, 1956, when T.S. Eliot came to the University of Minnesota. He delivered his lecture “The Frontiers of Criticism” to

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