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Month: May 2014

5 Revealing Statistics About Dating

May 4, 2014 (links, photos, and videos updated December 9, 2018)

Photo via BlackandMarriedWithKids.com
Black women are more attracted to thier own race compared to other women. Photo via BlackandMarriedWithKids.com

A good number of Americans prefer the single/dating life, while others like committed relationships with each other. Granted the latter group is still a slight majority, according to data by Static Brain via the US Census. But these five statistics tell a lot about love and relationships in America.

1. Data compiled from Facebook’s app “Are You Interested” found that Asian and Latina women prefer white men over their own race. Both white and black women prefer their own race. But black women had a 50 percent higher response rate to black men than white women did with white men. read more

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Common Core Standards And Customary Units: Match Made In Hell

May 4, 2014

Photo via Bay Area Speech Language Learning Associates.
Photo via Bay Area Speech Language Learning Associates.

The Common Core Initiative is federal legislation that standardized learning and graduation requirements in English and mathematics for most U.S. public schools. It’s endorsed by both the bipartisan National Governors Association (NGA) and non-partisan Council of Chief State School Counselors (CCSSC).

Former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, who’s also the former Chairwoman of the NGA, is widely regarded as the architect of Common Core. School districts across the country began adopting the program in 2009. Parents all across the country are now complaining to their local school districts about assignments being impossible to teach to a 2nd grader, while other parents call Common Core “ridiculous” and completely unnecessary. read more

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