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All Work and No Sleep Makes Jack an Inefficient Employee0
- August 6, 2015
Are you tired? If the answer is yes, you’re likely not alone. The Washington Post recently reported that the average American gets about 1½ hours less sleep than the average American 50 years ago. Apparently, this lack of sleep has economic consequences: “Research out of Harvard has shown that, for the average worker, insomnia results
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Would You Have Wanted This Curriculum in High School?1
- August 6, 2015
There’s a growing consensus that the curriculum of many American high schools has been dumbed down, and that we need to expect more of our students. In response, some schools are returning to a curriculum that approximates the rigor of times past. One is Trinity School at River Ridge – a private school in Minnesota
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Not Equal?0
- August 6, 2015
In the public mind, sex and gender are now separate, though the terms are often confused. Just to clarify, according to the dominant cultural narrative of our time sex (male or female) is biological while gender (masculine or feminine) is how one identifies. Logically, it gets very messy, especially when considered through the lens of
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Good Luck Deciphering This Academic Gibberish!0
- August 6, 2015
There is a special drudgery to much of academic writing these days. If you think some of it is incomprehensible, it is. But to the writer and a select circle, you are too stupid to understand it. So which one is closer to the truth? Back in the 1990s, Denis Dutton, a respected philosopher out
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The Out-of-Wedlock Birthrate is Going Up0
- August 6, 2015
Take a look at the trend of births to unwed mothers in America since 1940: And now, more than half of all births to millennial women (of all races) in America take place out of wedlock. Should we be worried about this trend and the decline of child bearing within marriage? Well, statistically speaking, parents
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Today’s Man Bites Dog Story: Public School Teacher Takes On Unions0
- August 5, 2015
Rebecca Friedrichs had a rude awakening as a young student teacher. Concerned about the physically abusive teacher in the class next door, she asked her own master teacher what they should do about the abuse. The answer she got? “Nothing.” Finding that these children were in harm’s way because their teacher was protected by unions
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