An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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Japanese schools do not have proms.
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