Gotta love the ole USA: American adults in general do not understand what molecules are (other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can identi...

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Pictured is a student holding a self-made picket sign as part of a protest to disallow students that failed the Texas Assessment of Knowledge ...

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An editorial in today's New York Times is hardly news to anyone who has ever been a teenager, but is important nonetheless: Reliance on abstinence-only sex...

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I understand that another Virginia Tech should be avoided, but this is ridiculous: Allen Lee, an 18-year-old straight-A student at Cary-Grove High School, was arrested Tuesday near his home and charged with disorderly conduct for an essay police described as vio...

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Reader Advised by Wolves alerted me to a post by Jane Galt in which she addresses her support for vouchers. My attention is drawn to this single...

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On the average, teachers are better paid than architects or economists according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. From today's Opinion Journ...

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Move over "Big Oil." Academia is just as greedy and immoral. Heh. Explanation At the Zoo. TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) Comments on this Entry: ...

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One of the few things I’ve always assumed united conservatives and liberals in this country is a desire to pass on the American story to...

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When our children were little, their grandparents really liked talking “baby talk” to them. I’d watch as supposedly intelligent ad...

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I have to hand to Arnold. He seems to be making some very sound decisions recently, and this latest piece of legislation is no exception. Ba...

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In case any of you despair about the workers who will be supporting you in retirement: Educational doomsayers are again up in arms at a new adult literacy study showing tha...

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