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  2. Wisconsin v. Yoder - Wikipedia

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    Wisconsin v. Jonas Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that Amish children could not be placed under compulsory education past 8th grade.

  3. Voluntary childlessness - Wikipedia

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    Pursuit of higher education, unaffordable housing, economic precariousness, and the rising cost of living are among the reasons why. [144] [143] These trends have accelerated in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. [143] Like the case in other countries, there is a generational gap in attitudes towards reproduction.

  4. Fertility and intelligence - Wikipedia

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    While education and childbearing place competing demands on a person's resources, education is positively correlated with IQ. [39] While there is less research into men's fertility and education, in developed countries evidence suggests that highly-educated men display higher levels of childbearing compared to less-educated men. [40] [41]

  5. Social reproduction - Wikipedia

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    Education is an attempt at leveling the playing field by allowing those in poorer classes a chance to move up. However, it fails in many critical ways; for example, education is costly: better schools mean better equipment, better books, and better teachers, all of which remain beyond the pay grade of the poverty line .

  6. Villager - Wikipedia

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    The Villager (Austin, Texas), a free weekly newspaper of Austin, Texas, serving the African-American community; The Villager, a weekly newspaper in Namibia; The Villager (Saint Paul, Minnesota), a community newspaper in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States; The Villager, a newspaper in Manhattan, New York, United States

  7. Kibbutz communal child rearing and collective education

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    This, so they claimed, was achieved by shifting the responsibility for education from the family to society at large. [2] The founders of the collective education believed that granting the children independence from their family liberated the family from the economic and social burden, which otherwise might distort the children's development.

  8. Intellectual inbreeding - Wikipedia

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    The Commission on Graduate Education in Economics (COGEE) recognizes it as "a trend for emulation rather than diversification." Academic inbreeding has also been cited as a major problem in the major universities of the People's Republic of China —such as Peking University and Tsinghua University , which have adopted measures in recent years ...

  9. Idola specus - Wikipedia

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    Idola specus (singular Idolum specus), normally translated as "Idols of the Cave" (or "Idols of the Den"), is a type of logical fallacy whereby the peculiar biases of individuals lead them to errors.