Essays about Texas

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Sunday, August 30, 2020

Guns are more dangerous than they used to be: Don't carry a pistol

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Back in 1987, Mr. Bob and Miss Smitty, beloved family elders, traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to see an exhibition of ancient Egyptian artif...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

COVID-19 is disrupting American higher education: That's a good thing

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The coronavirus pandemic hit American higher education like a Cat 5 hurricane.   Virtually all colleges and universities shut their campuses...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Colleges urged to go test optional: We don't need no stinkin' standardized admission tests!

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More and more colleges are admitting new students without requiring them to take a traditional standardized admissions test: the ACT or SAT...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Google says you can skip college: Uh-oh!

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Universities have been whistling past the graveyard for years, Ignoring the signs of rot in their industry, they just rolled along through t...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas, has 444 students. Roughly ten percent tested positive for COVID-19. Think about it

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 When I was four years old, my father told me the most harrowing story of my childhood--perhaps the most harrowing story of my life. In the...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

One in four young Americans contemplated suicide in June: Will they feel better if they take out student loans and go to college?

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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms what Americans already know: The coronavirus pandemic is harmful to our mental...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Coronavirus alert: Mama, don't let your baby live in a college dorm this fall

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I went to college during the Vietnam War. Men registered for the draft at age 18 and could be swept into the Army within a few months of reg...