American Experiment on Families
Families Reports
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Restoring a Marriage Norm
View full report. Introduction Marriage is in decline in America, to the detriment of individuals and society alike, and yet we do essentially nothing about it. In this paper, I contest the common v...
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Was Trump and Clinton’s Campaign Silence Regarding Family Fragmentation Golden? A Symposium
View Full Report Compiled & with an Introduction by Mitch Pearlstein Essays By: Paul Allick, Harry Boyte, Barry Casselman, Frank Cerra, Chuck Chalberg, William Doherty, William Duncan, Dave Durenb...
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Specifically, What Must We Do to Repair Our Culture of Massive Family Fragmentation?
Featuring an Introduction by Mitch Pearlstein and essays by Jason Adkins, Randy Ahlm, Frank B. Cerra, Chuck Chalberg, Ward Conte, Bryan Dowd, Todd R. Flanders, Arvonne Fraser, Jake Haulk, Pete Hegseth...
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Families Articles
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After an ugly election season, can we celebrate what unites us?
Americans get along better than we give ourselves credit for — and our musicians and sports teams give us a place to celebrate that. Much has been said this year, especially in recent weeks, about t...
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Transgender Conformity at Nova Classical Academy
First Things | December 2016 Nova Classical Academy, a K–12 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the sort of school that most parents seeking a first-rate education for their children can only ...
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Americans of all sorts get along better than sour clichés have it
I rise in praise of superficial relationships among America’s 320 million or so men, women, and younger people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social clas...
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Families Posts
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Why are public schools feeding students, who are not in school, during the summer?
I am not at all unsympathetic to hungry kids if they have incompetent and/or neglectful parents. But this is not a proper expenditure or activity for any public school. Period. This gives a whole new ...
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Saint Paul Public Library celebrates Pride with Drag Story Hour: All Ages Welcome?
Drag performers will regale families with glitz, glamor, and stories about acceptance and inclusion at three Saint Paul libraries...
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CAE’s Adjunct Fellow Kevin Terrell: “Start Reading Now” in Minneapolis reaches 5,500 Children
This year we are serving 5,500 kids in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade over nine days, and we will start to have test scores on the impact of the program on reading scores starting this fall....
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Letter to GOP Leadership: No Pre-K Expansion; Preserving the K-12 Mission
Dayton is campaigning hard for $138 million “emergency” school funding but he might just settle for more pre-K funding instead. The governor has, in the past, successfully expanded pre-K programs ...
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Memo to Legislature: Resist Dayton’s Push for Expansion of “Free” Pre-K
The Dayton administration continues its relentless demand for Minnesota to adopt universal Pre-K for all four-year-old’s. There is no danger the legislature will pass universal pre-K this session bu...
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