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...voices that argue otherwise tell us more about our politically correct culture than they do about what children really need. The fact remains that gender matters--perhaps nowhere more than in regard to child rearing. The unique value of fathers has been explained by Dr. Kyle Pruett of Yale Medical School in his book Fatherneed: Why Father Care Is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child. Pruett says dads are critically important simply because "fathers do not mother." Psychology Today explained in 1996 that "fatherhood turns out to be a complex and unique phenomenon with huge consequences...
...should expand." In the legal-theory classes that Chen teaches at the China Institute of Industrial Relations in Beijing, he requires his students to memorize and recite the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "I call this forced enlightenment," he says. "If they can't memorize it, I tell them to read it out loud." One day, he hopes, such enlightenment will spread from the classroom to the courtroom...
...disagreed. Jean said that by about 4:00 a.m., he and his roommates were informed that they were allowed back in their rooms, and wrote to the Kirkland list that it was “very courteous of them to even stay around that late, let alone tell people they could re-enter.” Jean said that if the students had known they were going to be allowed back in at 4:00 a.m., then “it wouldn’t have been that big a deal.” HUPD representatives could not be reached...
...funds and will address those toward the end of the year (if there are any),” Gross wrote in an e-mail. But McLoughlin said the board will most likely spend more money next semester due to the high cost of Yardfest. “I can tell you that it’s not unusual that we’ve spent less than half because the largest event is Yardfest since there is a huge artist fee,” he said. In its first year, the CEB has encountered some difficulty in the planning phase, Petrich...
Learn the names of all the rivers in South America. That was the assignment given to Deborah Stipek's daughter Meredith in school, and her mom, who's dean of the Stanford University School of Education, was not impressed. "That's silly," Stipek told her daughter. "Tell your teacher that if you need to know anything besides the Amazon, you can look it up on Google." Any number of old-school assignments--memorizing the battles of the Civil War or the periodic table of the elements--now seem faintly absurd. That kind of information, which is poorly retained unless...