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America Outperforms Canada in Surgery Wait Times—And It's Not Even Close ([link removed] )

by Kevin Pham

America’s health system is certainly flawed and in need of reform, but there is clearly something working well enough that our system, despite already treating ten times more cases of appendicitis, can absorb the dissatisfied Canadians.

AMERICA IS SIGNIFICANTLY OUTPERFORMING CANADA IN SURGERY WAIT TIMES EVEN AS IT’S LIKELY THAT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CANADIANS COME HERE TO GET SURGERY. ([link removed] )

5 Things Parents Need to Know about "Summer Loss" ([link removed] )

by Abel J. Koury

Nearly 50,000 media stories on summer learning appeared in 2018. Despite the seeming consensus that children lose learning during the summer, a 2017 report from the Brookings Institute showed that the research on summer learning is actually quite mixed.

SOME RESEARCHERS—LIKE ME—QUESTION IF SUMMER LOSS EVEN OCCURS. ([link removed] )

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Ralph Lazo, the Man Who Voluntarily Lived in an Internment Camp" ([link removed] )

by Lawrence W. Reed

He had grown up around many youngsters of Japanese ancestry and counted some of them as his best friends. When he saw them rounded up by the US government to be shipped off to desert camps, he went with them.

WE MUST NEVER FORGET WHAT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT DID, AND WE MUST BE VIGILANT THAT NOTHING LIKE IT EVER HAPPENS AGAIN. ([link removed] )

What the 15-Hour Work Week Prophets Failed to Account for ([link removed] )

by Saul Zimet

John Maynard Keynes, one of history’s most influential economists, predicted in 1930 that the grandchildren of his generation would enjoy 15-hour workweeks—and he was hardly alone. So, what did the prophets fail to account for?

HOW DO PEOPLE ACCOUNT FOR THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN PROJECTIONS AND ACTUAL WORKING HOURS? THERE ARE SOME POPULAR EXPLANATIONS, ALL OF WHICH SHARE ONE COMMONALITY: THEY BLAME THE PHENOMENON ON THE SHORTCOMINGS OF INDIVIDUALS. ([link removed] )

Fatalism Should Have No Place in Education ([link removed] )

by Daniel Buck

In Hillbilly Elegy, author J.D. Vance comments on the consequences of the views the education system instills, writing that “what separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives.” Instead of defeatist narratives about our culture and society, we need to advance the reality that our meritocracy, while imperfect, is still alive.

TEACHING KIDS THAT LIFE IS UNFAIR IS NECESSARY, BUT SO, TOO, IS TEACHING THEM THAT THEIR SKIN COLOR OR CULTURAL BACKGROUND DOES NOT PREDESTINE THEIR FATE IN THIS LIFE. ([link removed] )

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