1. 1.5 million missing black men
2. Problems with No Child Left Behind legislation
“The bill still doesn’t include student growth. While everyone in education talksabout student growth, our policies continue to ignore it.”
“But if you’re extreme, you must be what you are, which means that happiness is more or less beside the point. These people tend to be freaks and misfits who were forced to experience the world in an unusually challenging way. They developed strategies to survive, and as they grow older they find ways to apply these strategies to other things, and create for themselves a distinct and powerful advantage.”
4.11 images that capture the vastness of space
5. The problem with satisfied patients
“In fact, a national study revealed that patients who reported being most satisfied with their doctors actually had higher healthcare and prescription costs and were more likely to be hospitalized than patients who were not as satisfied. Worse, the most satisfied patients were significantly more likely to die in the next four years.”