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  • Educational Collapse and the Definition of Truth

    Educational Collapse and the Definition of Truth8

    It’s no secret that America’s students are struggling. The latest Nation’s Report Cards have not been flattering, with average scores in both math and reading declining over recent years. It’s also no secret that pandemic restrictions have only exacerbated the learning decline in the U.S. However, scores have been falling since before the pandemic, signaling

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  • Education Used to Happen Outside of School

    Education Used to Happen Outside of School0

    Prior to passage of America’s first compulsory schooling statute, in Massachusetts in 1852, it was generally accepted that education was a broad societal good and that there could be many ways to be educated: at home, through one’s church, with a tutor, in a class, on your own as an autodidact, as an apprentice in

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  • Education Today: An Inch Deep and a Mile Wide?

    Education Today: An Inch Deep and a Mile Wide?0

    Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal released a story on the different outcomes between those who take notes by hand and those who take notes via keyboard. According to the article, there are pros and cons to both sides: “Generally, people who take class notes on a laptop do take more notes and can

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  • Education Then and Now

    Education Then and Now1

    • June 4, 2014

    If you want to positively impact the future, you must have a thorough knowledge of the past. One of the most interesting books that I’ve read in the past year is Henri Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity. It’s considered the standard treatment of what education looked like in ancient Greece – the fount from which education

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  • Education Leader Explains 4 Reasons Why Today’s Students Can’t Write

    Education Leader Explains 4 Reasons Why Today’s Students Can’t Write0

    If you’ve endured a peer review session in college or been the lucky one to sort through job applications for the opening at your office, you’ve probably discovered a sad truth about Americans: They can’t write. Marc Tucker, a leading expert in the world of education, recently had the latter experience. As he explained in

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  • Education is Not Magic

    Education is Not Magic0

    • June 19, 2015

    Americans have traditionally expected more of education than it was capable of delivering by itself. In recent decades, many have looked to education as the means of solving poverty, inequality, and a number of other woes that plague our society. Of course, details of how education will do this are usually omitted. In his important 1965 essay “Education

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