The Debunker's Domain, by Robert Sheaffer.
Hello, this is Robert Sheaffer. I’m an author, a free-lance writer, and skeptical investigator of all manner of bogus claims. Skeptical resources on UFOs, the “paranormal,” feminist “scholarship”
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Hello, this is Robert Sheaffer. I’m an author, a free-lance writer, and skeptical investigator of all manner of bogus claims. Skeptical resources on UFOs, the “paranormal,” feminist “scholarship”
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Under pressure from self-styled ‘anti-racists’, the New York-based academic publishing house, Wiley, unilaterally broke its contract with author Chris Brand by de-publishing the book for ‘racism.’
Unusually successful schooling experiments are more like hit movies, which notoriously depend upon the temporary and highly unstable commingling of charismatic individuals.
Steve Sailer’s iSteve Blog: My VDARE.com review of Nisbett’s “Intelligence” book
She lost her job and her supervisor resigned in protest. This happened in England, this week. Yay diversity and honoring Muslim culture!
Although students appear to like the use of animations in lectures delivered using PowerPoint, there is now strong evidence that animation is nothing more than an entertaining distraction.
issues affecting boys are more serious than those affecting girls, but they have been neglected by policy makers.
What About The Boys? Boys Face Serious Issues Which Are Being Ignored, Experts Argue
Taliban had wired the government-run girls’ school with an improvised explosive device in the Shewafarash area of Lakro tehsil, which they detonated early on Monday morning.
Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan – Girls’ school blown up in Mohmand
plagiarism seems to be governed by a sliding scale, with consequences lessening as the wrongdoer’s status rises.
Unwed pregnant teens and twenty-somethings who attend or have graduated from private religious schools are more likely to obtain abortions than their peers from public schools
Young Unwed Women Who Graduated From Private Religious Schools More Likely To Obtain Abortions
recent job losses hit men harder and that women earn far more bachelor’s and master’s degrees than do men.
‘Power’ move by male students ruffles U. of C. — chicagotribune.com
“In our study, a child’s inability to pay attention when they start school had the strongest negative effect on how they performed at the end of high school — regardless of their IQ (intelligence quotient),”
Poor Attention In Kindergarten Predicts Lower High School Test Scores
Frisco Independent Schools allowed Gideons International to display Bibles on tabletops in all 13 of the district’s middle and high schools last week.
Children’s abilities to both speak and understand words developed faster when they were with classmates with better language skills.
Preschoolers’ Language Development Is Partly Tied To Their Classmates’ Language Skills
Whiteness studies is an interdisciplinary arena of academic inquiry focused on the cultural, historical and sociological aspects of people identified as white, and the social construction of whiteness as an ideology tied to social status.
Children born out of wedlock in the United States tend to have poorer health and educational outcomes than those born to married women
Out-of-Wedlock Birthrates Are Soaring, U.S. Reports – NYTimes.com
This is the third such incident in three weeks. [Islamic world, please continue to ignore this. It's so much more important that you are "respected" and no one makes cartoons that offend you.]
Jihad Watch: Afghanistan: 84 girls hospitalized in school poisoning
Pope Benedict XVI apologized Wednesday to native Canadians who were physically and sexually abused at church-run boarding schools they were forced to attend, saying he was sorry for their anguish and was praying they would heal. [It's a start.]