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Marvin Olasky
December 14, 2024
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Fiction and Conviction

Marvin Olasky
December 14, 2024
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The Wall Street Journal stated, “Robert Harris is incapable of writing an unenjoyable book,” and that’s true in the present tense. Harris is in line to hit 70 in 2027 and at some point his skills will diminish, but now… wow, this former journalist with a love of history knows how to write, as his two most recent novels (both Read More ›

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Big group of people having fun in success victory and happy pose with raised arms on mountain top against sunset lakes and mountains. Generative AI.
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American Center for Transforming Education
December 13, 2024
Education
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A Winning Strategy

American Center for Transforming Education
December 13, 2024
Education
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Discovery Institute’s American Center for Transforming Education has been on the front lines advancing education freedom with a winning strategy and is looked to as a national thought leader on K-12 education policy. Read More ›
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Poor homeless or refugee barefoot man sleeps on the street in the shadow of the building
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Marvin Olasky
December 13, 2024
Homelessness
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Eighty Years of Homelessness Realism, 1914-1994

Marvin Olasky
December 13, 2024
Homelessness
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I've written in recent weeks about the non-sentimental view of homelessness that was common in the late nineteenth century. For much of the twentieth century, that realism carried over into academic work as well. Read More ›
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Stephen C. Meyer
December 12, 2024
Intelligent Design
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Return of the God Hypothesis in Cambridge with Stephen Meyer

Stephen C. Meyer
December 12, 2024
Intelligent Design
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Stephen Meyer, bestselling author of the book Return of the God Hypothesis, discusses the rise, fall, and revival in the sciences of the belief in God as Creator, with particular reference to figures related to the University of Cambridge in England. This presentation was taped at a Discovery Institute event in Cambridge, UK in August 2024. Find out more about Read More ›

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Group Of Elementary School Pupils Sitting On Floor Listening To Teacher
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Walter Myers III
December 11, 2024
Education
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Blacks Need High Quality Education, Not a DEI Agenda

Walter Myers III
December 11, 2024
Education
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In K-12 education, equity is leading to a dumbing down of academic standards for black students. For example, the Los Angeles Unified School District has implemented new equity-based grading policies, rewarding A, B, and C grades not based on subject mastery, but good behavior in the classroom. Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools has done similarly, resulting in a decrease in D and F grades for black students that led to a 4 percent graduation rate increase. Read More ›