The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)-nicknamed “the Nation’s Report Card”-is the largest nationally representative assessment that tests what American students know and can do in different subjects. Curiously, it was recently announced that beginning in 2017, NAEP plans to start measuring so-called “non-cognitive skills” like motivation and grit in the background surveys they issue […]
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From Our Friends at the Atlantic
If you haven’t seen it already, James Fallows, one of our favorite writers (and long-time Prospect contributor), has a very nice write-up of our new issue over at The Atlantic. “Congrats to the Prospect for publishing material like this for a quarter-century, and may it continue,” he writes. We’ll do our best!
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Photo of the Day, Another Brick In the Wall Edition
View image | gettyimages.com A visitor at an exhibition of artist Nathan Sawaya’s Lego sculptures in Paris takes a moment to reflect. Are we all merely collections of interchangeable blocks, formed into temporary coherence only to be disassembled before we slip into the eternal void? Who is real, and who is the simulacrum? Will there […]
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Now It’s Time For Hillary Clinton to Answer Some Questions About the Iraq War
View image | gettyimages.com Jeb Bush has now been bludgeoned into submission on Iraq, a development that is remarkable when you step back and look at how quickly the Republican consensus on that topic has changed. Two weeks ago you wouldn’t have predicted that most of the Republicans would now say the war should never […]
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Photo of the Day, Men In Shorts Firing Antique Guns Edition
View image | gettyimages.com This picture comes from the celebration in Bavaria of Christi Himmelfahrt, marking the ascension of Christ to heaven. What does Jesus have to do with firing antique guns into the air while wearing traditional Bavarian outfits? I have no idea, but that guy in the middle isn’t having nearly as much […]
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The Myth of ‘Faulty Intelligence’
View image | gettyimages.com The Iraq War, both how it began and how it proceeded, is now an active topic in the 2016 presidential campaign, which I think is a highly salutary development. But it does mean that we need to be on guard for the kind of distortions, misleading statements, and outright lies that […]
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Photo of the Day, You Look Mahvelous Edition
View image | gettyimages.com A staffer at Madame Tussaud’s in London prepares Chewbacca for the wax museum’s new Star Wars exhibit. I can only imagine the amount of conditioner it takes to keep all that hair shiny and manageable.
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How Changes In Americans’ Religious Views Are Cornering the GOP
View image | gettyimages.com Just yesterday, I wrote a critical post about Jeb Bush’s recent speech at Liberty University in which he essentially made a case for Christianity as the greatest of all religions (“Consider a whole alternative universe of power without restraint, conflict without reconciliation, oppression without deliverance, corruption without reformation, tragedy without renewal, […]
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Photo of the Day, Adorable Monk Edition
View image | gettyimages.com A young boy participating in a ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea to honor the Buddha’s birthday.
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What Really Matters in 2016
View image | gettyimages.com So over the weekend, Rick Perry reminded Republicans of what’s really at stake in this election: “Something I want you all to think about is that the next president of the United States, whoever that individual may be, could choose up to three, maybe even four members of the Supreme Court,” […]
