After the Apocalypse, Try Reason!
After the Apocalypse, Try Reason! by Edward Hudgins May 27, 2011 -- Eighty-nine-year-old religious nut Harold Camping prophesized that the world would end on May 21, 2011, at 6:00 p.m. local time. A woman who believed him wanted to get a jump on Armageddon and avoid the horrors of fire and brimstone. So she slit her 11- and 14-year-old daughters' throats with a box cutter and then slit her own. The Rapture did not occur. The world didn't end. The two daughters and mother survived. The mother is
I have a concept, or an inkling. We already have some fragments of solid research sprinkled across OL on this topic: how precipitous the decline has been. I would call a truce on further assertions. Two reasoning people can agree on measures that can and cannot accurately represent a 'decline.' Measure decline in American education according to useful metrics, by benchmarks and results, by comparison, by relation. In America, which measures have shown a decline, which measures have shown the gr