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NPR Ed… Why More Than A Million Teachers Can't Use Social Security, by Cory Turner
Teachers have staged protests in recent weeks in West Virginia,
Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado and Arizona. Some are fighting lawmakers
who want to scale back their pensions. It's no secret that many states
have badly underfunded their teacher pension plans for decades and now
find themselves drowning in debt. But this pensions fight is also
complicated by one little-known fact...
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The Daily Signal… Nation’s ‘Report Card’ Shows Federal
Intervention Has Not Helped Students,
Lindsey Burke - April 10, 2018 - When President Lyndon Johnson signed
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act into law in 1965, he vowed
the unprecedented new federal intervention in K-12 education would
“bridge the gap between helplessness and hope” for “educationally
deprived children.” When President Jimmy Carter signed the Department
of Education...
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Remembering Columbine, 19 Years Later,
Kay Coles James
April 20, 2018 - It’s one of those moments that life sears into our
memory. Nineteen years ago today, Americans turned on the news. And we
saw it: the harrowing footage of students running out of Columbine High
School. I learned later the Columbine attackers tried to prevent those
students from leaving. They planted a powerful bomb in the school
cafeteria...
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The Daily Signal… In 1 Graphic, Here’s What Uncle Sam Is
Doing With Your Tax Money,
Adam Michel and Justin Bogie - April 13, 2018 - Last month rapper Cardi
B asked a slightly more profane version of the same question many
Americans ask when they file their taxes. “Uncle Sam, I want to know
what you’re doing with my tax money.” That’s a good question. The
average American household sends more than $20,000 to Washington in tax
revenue each year, and most...
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‘Pay Gap’ Myth Ignores Women’s Intentional
Job Choices, Rachel Greszler
April 09, 2018 - Tuesday is supposedly “Equal Pay Day,” but what does
that mean? Well, according to outdated, flawed, and incomplete
statistics that say women make only 82 cents on the dollar, compared
with men, Equal Pay Day signifies how long into the new year women have
to work just to catch up to the earnings of their male counterparts
from...
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She Got Pregnant at 18 and Did Something
That Today, Few Teens Do, Kelsey Harkness
April 08, 2018 - Kelly Clemente found out she was pregnant when she was
18. She had just finished her first semester of college, and up until
then, described herself as your typical “all-American girl.” She got
good grades, was a member of a sorority, and ran on the track team.
When she saw that pregnancy test, “My life is over,” she thought. “I
was like, it...
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NPR Ed… College Waitlists Often Waste Would-Be
Students' Time,
Clare Lombardo & Elissa Nadworny - "Does being waitlisted count as
half an acceptance??" "Literally got waitlisted everywhere" "Being
waitlisted from your top choice is the worst feeling" "What should one
do when waitlisted at their top choice school? Asking for a friend."
"All these waitlisted got me feelin like Ladybird." Those are just some
of the thoughts that high school seniors...
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NPR Ed… The Fight Over Teacher Salaries: A Look At
The Numbers, By Cory Turner
The teachers strike in West Virginia may have ended last week when Gov.
Jim Justice signed a law giving educators a 5 percent pay increase, but
the fight in other states is just warming up. "You can make anywhere
from $5,000 to $20,000 more by driving 15 minutes across the state
line," said Dale Lee, president of the West Virginia Education
Association. "We're having trouble keeping...
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NPR Ed… Professors Are Targets In Online Culture
Wars; Some Fight Back, Anya Kamanetz
There is a red light flashing in professor Albert Ponce's cubby-sized
office. The light comes from an old-fashioned answering machine.
Lately, he doesn't like to listen to the messages by himself. When he
presses play, it's obvious why. Here are a couple of messages… Ponce
teaches political science at Diablo Valley College, a community college
in California's East...
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Americans Grapple With Evil Amid Decline in
Religious Faith, Emilie Kao
April 01, 2018 - Blaise Pascal once described a “God-shaped vacuum in
the heart of each man.” But in modern-day America, few statements can
raise eyebrows more swiftly than expressing faith in the transcendent.
From Joy Behar mocking Vice President Mike Pence as mentally ill for
believing that God guides him, to former President Barack...
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The Daily Signal… 4 Steps to Better School Security,
Steven Bucci
March 27, 2018 - America has continued the heated debate as to what
must be done to adequately protect our children at schools. Some
(mistakenly) just say “ban guns,” or at least the ones they don’t like.
Others (I am afraid equally mistakenly) say just put more guns into
schools. The answer is more complex, however, and will take more effort
than...
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25 of the Most Influential Women in
American History, Chrissy Clark
March 28, 2018 - Women’s History Month, established in 1987, is a
celebration of women’s efforts across the nation to make the world a
better place for females. Before the month is out, let’s not forget our
female forefathers, um, that is foremothers. These are the ladies who
paved the way for women to have a place not only in the house, but the
Senate...
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The Daily Signal… The Real Reason We Have Mass Shootings,
By Walter E. Williams
March 21, 2018 -- One of the unavoidable tragedies of youth is the
temptation to think that what is seen today has always been. Nowhere is
this more noticeable than in our responses to the recent Parkland,
Florida, massacre. Part of the responses to those murders are calls to
raise the age to purchase a gun and to have more thorough background
checks—in a word, to make gun purchases...
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The Daily Signal… 6 Reasons Gun Control Will Not Solve Mass
Killings,
John G. Malcolm & Amy Swearer - March 16, 2018 - In the wake of the
tragic murder of 17 innocent students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students, educators,
politicians, and activists are searching for solutions to prevent
future school shootings. As emotions morph from grief to anger to
resolve, it is vitally important to supply...
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The Daily Signal… Shootings Are a Morality Problem, Not a Gun
Problem, By Walter E. Williams
March 07, 2018 -- Before we discuss violence with guns, I’d like to run
a couple of questions by you. According to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, every day nearly 30 Americans die in motor
vehicle crashes that involve drunk driving. What kind of restrictions
should be placed on automobile ownership? Should there be federal
background checks in order for people...
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The Daily Signal… The Parallels Between the Gun Debate and
the Opioid Crisis, By Star Parker
March 07, 2018 -- By now, most have heard about the deadly opioid
epidemic that has struck our nation. According to data compiled in a
Kaiser Family Foundation report, there were 42,249 casualties in 2016
related to opioids. This is double the 21,089 reported in 2010. For a
little perspective, given all the attention guns are getting these
days, per the FBI, in 2015 there were 13,455 murders...
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The Daily Signal… 4 Examples of Extraordinary Presidential
Leadership, John Venable
February 15, 2016 - There’s no better way of celebrating our presidents
around Presidents Day than by remembering a few of their extraordinary
acts of courage. Here are four examples highlighting when past
presidents have displayed clear leadership: George Washington. When
King George III asked what General Washington would do after he led...
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Inside Higher Education… Taking the Pulse of a Class,
By Colleen Flaherty
February 20, 2018 -- Even defenders of student evaluations of teaching
admit they’re flawed. A top contention is that students are almost
always asked to evaluate a professor at the end of a course, when they
no longer have a personal incentive to help that instructor teach
better. Enter ClassPulse. Part of a growing market of products that
allow students to offer anonymous, instantaneous feedback...
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The Daily Signal… Go Green With Gasoline If You’re Going to
Consume That Sandwich,
David Kreutzer - January 30, 2018 - A new study shows that if you
aren’t ready to go vegan to save the world, then you should quit riding
your bike and take a car. An article in the Journal of Insufferable
Busybodies (official title: Sustainable Production and Consumption)
calculates the carbon footprint for a variety of sandwiches. These
carbon footprints include carbon dioxide...
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The Daily Signal… Raising the Minimum Wage Hurts Teen, Young
Adult Employment Rates,
Kyle Perisic - February 15, 2018 - A new study shows that raising the
minimum wage has played a role in the decline of teen employment and
the labor force participation rate, which has fallen by about half
since 1994. The study, conducted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason
University, examined three possible factors to explain why teen
employment has...
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NPR… How To Talk With Kids About Terrible Things,
By Cory Turner
February 18, 2018 -- For the more than 3,000 students at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School, Wednesday's mass shooting was terrifying
and life-changing. But what of the tens of millions of other children,
in schools across the country, who have since heard about what happened
and now struggle with their own feelings of fear, confusion and
uncertainty...
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Young Children Are Spending Much More Time
In Front Of Small Screens, Anya Kamanetz
It's not your imagination: Tiny tots are spending dramatically more
time with tiny screens. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization,
just released new numbers on media use by children 8 and under. The
nationally representative parent survey found that 98 percent of homes
with children now have a mobile device such as a tablet or smartphone...
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NPR… What Do Asthma, Heart Disease And Cancer
Have In Common? Maybe Childhood Trauma,
Cory Turner - "Trauma" is a heavy and haunting word. For many
Americans, it conjures images of troops returning from Iraq and
Afghanistan. The emotional toll from those wars made headlines and
forced a healthcare reckoning at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, a pediatrician, would like to see a similar...
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Why We Don’t Need Libel and Blackmail Laws,
Walter E. Williams
January 24, 2018 - President Donald Trump said, “We are going to take a
strong look at our country’s libel laws so that when somebody says
something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will
have meaningful recourse in our courts.” The president was responding
to statements made in Michael Wolff’s new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside
the...
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My Quest to Help Americans Rediscover the
Bible, Dennis Prager
January 09, 2018 - I won’t make any assumptions about how many readers
noticed I took a three-month break from column writing. Nevertheless, I
want to explain why. I needed the time to finish the first volume of
the biggest project of my life as a writer, a commentary on the first
five books of the Bible, or what are called the Torah in Hebrew. The...
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The Daily Signal… Why We Are a Republic, Not a Democracy,
Walter E. Williams
January 17, 2018 - Hillary Clinton blamed the Electoral College for her
stunning defeat in the 2016 presidential election in her latest
memoirs, “What Happened.” Some have claimed that the Electoral College
is one of the most dangerous institutions in American politics. Why?
They say the Electoral College system, as opposed to a simple...
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The Daily Signal… Martin Luther King on the Limits of Civil
Disobedience, Peter C. Myers
January 14, 2018 -- More than most years, 2018 will be a year filled
with remembrances of Martin Luther King Jr. because in it falls the
50th anniversary of King’s assassination. It will also be a year filled
with remembrances of 1968 itself as the culminating year of the 1960s,
a year in which the country seemed divided even to the breaking point.
In many such...
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The Daily Signal... You’re Never Ready to Get Married. But That
Shouldn’t Stop You.
Dennis Prager - January 02, 2018 - In every age, people say and believe
things that aren’t true but somehow become accepted as “conventional
wisdom.” The statement “I’m not ready to get married” is a current
example. Said by more and more Americans between the ages of 21 and 40
(and some who are older than that), it usually qualifies as both
meaningless...
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The Daily Signal… George Washington’s Sterling Character Set
an Example for the Ages,
Richard Lim - December 23, 2017 - For most Americans, the 23rd of
December has no particular significance. But an extraordinary event
happened on that day in 1783 in Annapolis, Maryland, that stunned the
world. Gen. George Washington stood before the Continental Congress in
Maryland’s State House and resigned his commission as the
commander-in-chief of...
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The Daily Signal… What We Can Learn From Reagan About
Celebrating Christmas,
Lee Edwards - December 22, 2015 - San Bernardino. Boston Marathon
bombing. Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. Paris Bataclan Theater
massacres. Jihad, Islamic State. Caliphate. Syria, Iraq, Libya. Freddie
Gray. Ferguson and Michael Brown. Assisted suicide. Whatever happened
to peace on earth and good will to men? In times like these when I am
thinking how...
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Inside Higher Education… Narrowing the Terms of Tenure,
By Colleen Flaherty
December 13, 2017 - University of Arkansas professors want to stall a
vote on system policy changes they say would upend the definition of
tenure. Many fear the system is trying to focus on the vague concept of
collegiality. It’s hard to build faculty consensus on anything, but
professors across Arkansas and colleagues elsewhere are speaking out
against proposed...
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Even the Best Laws Cannot Save Our Society,
Walter E. Williams
December 13, 2017 - I’m approaching my 82nd birthday, and my daughter
will occasionally suggest that modernity is perplexing to me because
I’m from prehistoric times. As such, it points to one of the
unavoidable problems of youth—namely, the temptation to think that
today’s behavioral standards have always been. Let’s look at a few of
the differences between...
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Findlay Courier… Tots unwrap true meaning of Christmas,
By Jeannie Wiley Wolf
Sat. Dec 9th, 2017 - CAREY — The tradition of Christmas School is alive
and well in Carey. This year marked the 44th year for the annual
five-day event meant to teach preschoolers about the true meaning of
Christmas. “I inherited this,” said the Rev. William Schultz, pastor of
Christ Lutheran Church which hosts Christmas School each year. “When...
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NPR… A Tech-Based Tool To Address Campus Sexual
Assault, Anya Kamanetz
December 6, 2017 - Jessica Ladd was sexually assaulted while at Pomona
College, just as one in five college women are. She says she found the
reporting process, "more traumatic than the assault" itself. She felt
"like I didn't have control. A lack of agency. I wasn't believed, and
ended up regretting reporting." Ladd, now 31, put her experience "in a
box...
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The Daily Signal… Celebrate the Pilgrims at Thanksgiving,
Jarrett Stepman
November 20, 2017 - For most American families, Thanksgiving is a time
to gather with loved ones, eat delicious food, and perhaps watch some
football. But not everyone is pleased with the celebration of this
holiday, and some have taken to maligning its “originators,” the
Pilgrims. An editorial in Al Jazeera labeled Thanksgiving a “thoroughly
nauseating affair...
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