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Reaching the Growing Numbers of the Suburban Poor
The suburbs omnipresent in movies like American Beauty and television shows like Weeds don’t exist anymore. Continue reading »
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Weekend Blog Hog: News We Found Interesting
There was a lot to read on the subject of social issues this week. Continue reading »
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Four-Year-Olds Don’t Like Fat People. Wonder Where They Got That From.
We need to move away from seeing someone’s size and assuming that we know absolutely anything about their health or lifestyle. Continue reading »
Business / Commentary / Education / Youth
Why Are Seven-Year-Olds Going to School for Entrepreneurship in Utah?
Called Highmark Charter School, the K-9 school is supposed to teach students how to budget, supply and demand, and financial literacy in general. Continue reading »
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Weekend Blog Hog: News We Think You Should Know
Here are some of the best articles that we found this week. Continue reading »
Segregation and Discrimination Is Alive and Well against the Roma in Slovakia
Roma kids are often taught in separate classrooms, corralled to play in a separate recess facility and are refused from eating hot lunch with the Slovakian kids in at least one school. Continue reading »
Birth Control Access Shouldn’t Have Anything to Do with Politics
Instead of making it easier, it’s often made more difficult for women to access contraception and sexual health information Continue reading »
The Way We Talk about Public Schools Is Part of the Problem
People are always trying to find things to pinpoint the blame on when discussing the country’s failing schools, some more politically correct than others. Continue reading »
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Monday Blog Hog: The Good, the Bad and the Inscrutable
All of the links that we thought were worthy of notice last week (or, more honestly, that we noticed last week). Continue reading »
My Reaction to the Reaction of Yale’s Decision to Cover Sex Reassignment Surgery
Yale University recently joined the list of 36 other universities that cover sex-reassignment surgeries. Continue reading »
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Making Programming Cooler to Girls AND Boys
Girls with an interest in programming will be able to see themselves and be encouraged to pursue this field. Continue reading »
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This Michigan Mom Was Uncomfortable by How “Pornographic” Anne Frank’s Diary Is
Did you just say the word “Screech” out loud because you’re confused by this mission? I thought you might’ve. Continue reading »
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Impactful Ink: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
After the tear-flowing experience that was The God of Small Things, we were ready for a less heart-wrenching read this month. Continue reading »
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The Myth of the United States’ Failing Schools
Though we are constantly hammered over the head by proclamations of students’ ineptitude compared to other countries, it seems that the picture is not nearly as clear as proponents of charter schools would like us to think. Continue reading »
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Turning Favelas from ‘City of God’ into ‘City of Humans’
As many as 100,000 drug dealers recently roamed the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Continue reading »
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Immigrants With Mental Disabilities Just Got the Right to Court-Appointed Lawyers When Facing Deportation. About Time.
The government’s official policy is that immigrants have no right to a taxpayer-funded lawyer if they face deportation. Continue reading »
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Weekend Blog Hog
We don’t have the time to cover everything in social issues during the week, but here are the best of what we found that was already written. Continue reading »
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But Seriously Though, Why Does Poverty Exist?
Without an explanation for poverty’s creation, there’s no clear identifiable way to fix it – or maybe even a will to fix it. Continue reading »
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The City of Niagara Falls Might Pay Your Loans if You Move There
Called Live NF, the plan is to entice people to live in Niagara Falls by paying off their student loans. Continue reading »
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LinkedIn Isn’t Cool, but That’s Not Why Young People Aren’t Using It
LinkedIn doesn’t need to be cool or even to look cool, for that matter, even if the site’s recent facelift is pretty sweet – because the alternatives don’t fix the underlying problem. Continue reading »
Analysis / Arts/Media / Education / Environment / Race
Maps That Have Shaped Our World View Were Not To Scale
By viewing the distortion in sizes, there can be made a claim at racism, western preference and a whole host of other accusations. Continue reading »
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Do Sponsor the Children Programs Work? Maybe.
A recent study found that, when looking at the effect of one program on children in Bolivia, Guatemala, India, Kenya, the Philippines and Uganda, children were 27 to 40 percent more likely to graduate from secondary school. Continue reading »
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Weekend Blog Hog
Here you’ll find some of our favorite blog posts that we discovered this week, posts that were so elegantly, wittily and brilliantly put that we just wanted to commend them. Continue reading »
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Dear Boy Scouts of America, Almost Is Not Good Enough
BSA cannot claim to build character while discriminating against an entire group of people. Continue reading »
