Fake News, Faith, and Reason
By Jerry Adler Yahoo! News A dozen or so years ago, I was working on a profile of Zig Ziglar, the famous motivational speaker who died in 2012, and I […]
Tag Archives: Educational System
Not All Anti-Bullying Laws Created Equal
By Lisa Rapaport Scientific American Anti-bullying policies in most U.S. states aim to protect kids against abuse from their peers in school and online, but their effectiveness varies widely depending […]
What Prisons Can Learn From Schools
By Eli Hager The Marshall Project “Many of the same constituencies we united with on education are the ones I’m collaborating with now on criminal justice,” says Senator Cory Booker […]
Poverty Shrinks Brains From Birth
By Sara Reardon Nature The stress of growing up poor can hurt a child’s brain development starting before birth, research suggests — and even very small differences in income can […]
Does Affirmative Action Work?: A Global Perspective
By Graham K. Brown & Arnim Langer Foreign Affairs Americans tend to think of affirmative action as a uniquely American institution: an outgrowth of the civil rights movement, intended primarily […]
The Scandinavian Way
By Nathan Heller The New Yorker Some say that the American Dream is not what it once was: wages are low, retirement is not a parachute glide but a plunge, […]
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