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Cash for Grades
Posted on May 1, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (14)
Education opens many doors. But should the main one be at the bank? School districts throughout the country are increasingly paying students for coming to class, taking tests, and improving their scores as part of controversial incentive programs known as “cash for grades.” Read full article »
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Morality Bites
Posted on April 24, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (27)
We’ve watched all things personal undergo very public makeovers on reality TV—our noses, our houses, our cars and jobs and spouses. But something more fundamental may have quietly fallen victim to a makeover as well: our moral identities. Read full article »
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Test Your (Moral) Mettle
Posted on January 28, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (6)
Is morality hard-wired into the human brain? Is there such a thing as “moral intuition”? Are emotions linked to moral judgments? Harvard psychology professor Marc Hauser asks those and other probing questions in his job of studying the science of moral decisions. Read full article »
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