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The Value of a Self-Directed Summer for Kids0
- Culture
- April 23, 2019
It’s all over the news these days. Kids are stressed-out, not playing, and, most worrisome, experiencing sharp increases in depression and suicide. Last month, a new paper published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology revealed that adolescent mental health has deteriorated over the last decade, with soaring depression rates for young people ages 14 to
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How Artificial Intelligence Systems Could Threaten Democracy0
- Culture
- April 23, 2019
U.S. technology giant Microsoft has teamed up with a Chinese military university to develop artificial intelligence systems that could potentially enhance government surveillance and censorship capabilities. Two U.S. senators publicly condemned the partnership, but what the National Defense Technology University of China wants from Microsoft isn’t the only concern. As my research shows, the advent
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Arizona Case Shows the Difference Between Campus Free Speech and Harassment0
- Education
- April 23, 2019
Three Arizona students may soon learn a valuable lesson: There’s a difference between exercising your free speech on campus and blocking someone else’s attempt to do the same. In March, three University of Arizona students shouted down a group of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, and then chased them to their cars, hurling insults
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Teachers Report Increasing Abuse at the Hands of Students0
- Culture
- April 23, 2019
Teachers have always had a hard job. It takes a dedicated person to prepare lessons, manage a classroom full of children, and deal with unhappy parents. But the role of teacher has become even more difficult — even dangerous — in recent years. One quarter of teachers report being the objects of student violence and
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A Legal Immigrant’s Lament0
- Economics
- April 22, 2019
In the late 1940s, my father, Kenneth Billingsley, a veteran of World War II, was working in a mine in the northern reaches of Manitoba. So through no fault of my own, I was born a long way north of the border. Despite childhood stints in Alliance, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan, when I sought to
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Research Reveals Teenagers Actually Love the Bard0
- Culture
- April 22, 2019
When you think of inner-city teenagers, what springs to mind? For many, it’s hoodies, video games — and probably hating Shakespeare. But my research proves that this stereotype is far from the truth. Shakespeare holds a contested place in the English national curriculum as the only compulsory writer to be studied between the ages of
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