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Thanks, Common Core: ACT Scores for Class of 2018 Worst in Decades

Click here: The creators of the ACT test announced on Wednesday that scores for the class of 2018 are the worst reported in decades. Math scores, in fact, are in free-fall among ACT-tested U.S. high school graduates, falling to their lowest mark in 14 years.
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Study: A Third Of Teens Haven’t Read A Single Book In Past Year

Click here: Stunning research shows just 2% of sophomores read daily newspaper — compared to third of same-aged teens in 1990s.
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Archaeologists find ancient city in a rural field in Kansas

Click here: According to Spanish records from 1601, they ran into a tribe called the Escanxaques, who told of a large city nearby where a Spaniard was allegedly imprisoned. The locals called it Etzanoa, home to perhaps 20,000 people between 1450 and 1700.
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What Was the Cold War?

The decades-long “Cold War” (1947-1989) between the United States and the Soviet Union was so named because the two global powers never came to direct blows. Yet, the war was not without its victims. In fact, millions of Cubans, Koreans and Vietnamese suffered under Communist tyranny. In this short 5-minute video, Renowned British historian Andrew Roberts explains in why “The Cold War” could just as easily be called “The Third World War.”

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Parkland Schools’ culture of tolerance lets students like Florida shooter slide

Click here: The South Florida Sun Sentinel newspaper obtained the Florida school shooter’s discipline records and found he was suspended at least 67 days over less than 18-months prior to the shooting. Parkland School’s culture of leniency allows students to engage in an endless loop of violations and second chances, creating a system where kids who commit the same offense for the 10th time may be treated like it’s the first. THE SHOOTER’S 4-PAGE DISCIPLINE REPORT is published at the at the bottom of this article.
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John Stossel vs. Noam Chomsky on Venezuela

In this short 4-minute video John Stossel has an exchange with famed M.I.T. linguist Noam Chomsky, who once praised former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez socialist policies.

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Why the 3/5ths Compromise Was Anti-Slavery

Is racism enshrined in the United States Constitution? How could the same Founding Fathers who endorsed the idea that all men are created equal also endorse the idea that some men are not? The answer provided in this short 5-minute video by Carol Swain, former professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, may surprise you.

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How much public money goes to support private schools in Iowa?

Click here: The Des Moines Register newspaper claims Iowa has spent nearly $500 million in public money to support private schools and home school programs since 2008.
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U.S. News & World Report names Iowa the Best State to Live in for 2018 Rankings

Click here: Infrastructure, Health Care, Education Lead Iowa to No. 1 Best States Ranking. There’s more to the Hawkeye State than corn and presidential primaries, the Best States rankings show.

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The Amazing Life of Ulysses S. Grant

No American led a more eventful life than Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States and the Union Army’s most celebrated general. Garry Adelman, director of history and education at the Civil War Trust, tells Grant’s amazing story in this inspiring 5-minute video.