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As I board my flight home, I am left with one lingering question: Is life in the US really better than life in Bhutan? Sure, we have washing machines and department stores, flushing toilets and pizza delivery and real showers. But do we appreciate any of those things? And if...
Denial: an unconscious defense mechanism characterized by refusal to acknowledge painful realities, thoughts or feelings. In this first stage of morning, students must cope with the reality that summer is over and that they actually have to wake up before 2 p.m. When I enrolled in elementary Vietnamese, I trekked...
Tribe’s 1985 book did not contain footnotes and endnotes—a decision he made as part of a “well-meaning effort to write a book accessible to a lay audience.”
The Nation Deceived authors, longtime academic investigators not known as partisans in the education wars, have amassed persuasive evidence showing that, for decades, accelerated students have performed almost as well on standardized tests as older classmates, even those with similar IQs--meaning that an accelerated 7year-old with an IQ...
IT'S ONE OF LIFE'S most painful and predictable rituals: leaving friends behind after graduation, marriage or retirement. But for 15 men who grew up together in the Bronx in the 1930s and '40s, today's most significant friendships began in childhood. Despite being scattered all over the country...