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The gap in test scores between rich and poor children is 30-40% wider than it was 25 years ago: given that the distribution of innate intelligence is unlikely to have shifted so much in one generation, it suggests that rich youngsters are benefitting more than ever from their economic and social advantages. Measures of social …
The northern Kentucky city of Williamstown plans to build a 510-foot (155.4-meter) wooden ship, the centerpiece of a planned biblical theme park called “Ark Encounter”, planned to attract 1.2 million visitors a year. To pay for this Creation Museum “Answers in Genesis” a Christian non-profit, intends to issue $62 million of bonds. Investors who buy …
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A wealthy Texas teenager, who mowed down and killed four people while three times over the drink-driving limit, was recently spared jail on the grounds that he was so spoilt by his parents he was unable to tell right from wrong. Ethan Couch, 16, stole two cases of beer from a grocery store before speeding …
Studies in the United States have shown that the main reason for going to college or university is to make more money. It’s not for an education. Few are quite sure what an “education” is any more. Jobs and money are what matter. Problems: there are few jobs for graduates once they finish their practical …
There is a body of scholarship showing that the collapse of the fertility rate to dangerously low levels across east Asia is the direct consequence of school cramming and “education fever”. Education fever causes Korean parents to scrape and save to send their children to private Hagwon schools to push up their grades and give …
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