Don’t panic about teen sex trends. Do panic about pundits and pols who cannot read newspapers
Despite thumbnail histories of cultural declension, it just isn’t the case that teenagers are uncontrollable cauldrons of hormones: teens are less likely to have sex than teens of the mid-90s. The alarming trend is a reversal of declining teen birth rates. Before the middle of the Bush era, teen birth rates had generally tracked adult […]
The good, the bad, and the supremely weird
By Sherman Dorn on January 27, 2009
The good DeanDad shows that he understands higher-ed history far better than Stanley Fish. Eduwonkette has a new gig (sociology at New York University). Barack Obama has been president for a little less than a week, and he’s already fulfilled a bunch of campaign promises. (Well, it’s good from my perspective.) Paul Krugman’s been tearing […]
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