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Stop Glorifying Harvard. Kyle Kashuv Will Probably Be Fine 0
- Education, Front Page, Opinions
- June 22, 2019
Conservatives make Harvard more powerful by voicing outrage at Kyle Kashuv’s rescinded admission. Instead, they should reveal Harvard for the fraud it is. Kashuv’s Rescinded Admission On Monday, Parkland massacre survivor and Twitter activist Kyle Kashuv announced that his acceptance to Harvard had been rescinded after Twitter mobs brought racist texts to the university’s attention.
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Francois-Noel Babeuf: The Marxist Before Marx 0
- Education, Free Style, Front Page, Philosophy
- June 13, 2019
The French Revolution produced a parade of fascinating characters, many of them deranged by power and vampire-like in their quest for blood. One of the period’s lesser-known figures was Gracchus Babeuf, whose ideas were shelved with his death in 1797 only to reappear decades later in the writings of Karl Marx. Babeuf was, as the
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What Happens When Everyone Gets a ‘Free’ Lunch? Money Problems 0
- Education, Front Page, Gov't Incompetence, Opinions
- June 10, 2019
A yogurt company, Chobani, has picked up the tab for unpaid school lunches in a Rhode Island school district. That’s a relief to the school district, but not one likely to be replicated elsewhere. A new report finds that it would take a whole lot of dairy to fix the waste and misspent money in federal school meal programs
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100 Reasons to Homeschool Your Kids 0
- Education, Free Style, Front Page
- June 9, 2019
This is my 100th article at FEE.org, so here are 100 reasons to homeschool your kids! 1. Homeschoolers perform well academically. 2. Your kids may be happier. 3. Issues like ADHD might disappear or become less problematic. 4. It doesn’t matter if they fidget. 5. YOU may be happier! All that time spent on your
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The History and Results of our Disastrous Public School System, Part II 0
- Education, Front Page, Gov't Incompetence, Opinions
- May 28, 2019
There is a popular saying that “the proof is in the pudding.” In the first part of this article set, my colleague Mike Margeson spelled out the historical roots of the American schooling system. He clearly laid out the blueprint that men like Horace Mann used to build a system that does anything but “educates.”
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The History and Results of America’s Disastrous Public School System, Part I 0
- Education, Front Page, Gov't Incompetence, Opinions
- May 14, 2019
While it’s almost universally understood that the American school system is underperforming, “reform,” too, is almost universally prescribed as the solution. Yet in other walks of life, bad ideas are not reformed—they are eliminated and replaced with better ones. Our school system is rarely identified as a bad idea. The system is reflexively left alone
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