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Education for Sale

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Earning a high school diploma is tantamount to taking your first step on the ladder of American success– wedged somewhere in between your first high school job as a pizza delivery guy and your first college job as a…pizza delivery guy.   But without that essential first step, life is…bleak.   So those who have [...]

Telling kids sex is fun, and other signs of the impending apocalypse

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I read an interesting piece this morning: “What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?”   The author, a sex-positive parent, discusses the discordance between her son’s sex education at home and the farce that occurs in public schools.  She has taught her son the proper names for things, honestly answered [...]

University of Chicago: stop this already

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  The University of Chicago student government and several pro-women groups on campus are hosting Sexual Assault Awareness Week next week, with a variety of activities and panels intended to raise awareness about assault on campus and provide resources for students and alumni.  You can check out a full schedule here.   In case you [...]

Patience: Made, not born

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In The Atlantic this week, parenting/education writer Jessica Lahey stresses that we need to re-discover the lost art of patience in the classroom.   Learning requires the ability to spend time with something– to think long and critically about its components, to contextualize its existence, to absorb its complexities and nuance. It’s a rule that [...]