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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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  • Education Is Not About Your ‘Lived Reality’

    Education Is Not About Your ‘Lived Reality’0

    Three years ago, I was smeared before all the students, professors, and staff members of Providence College, where I had taught since 1990. That was some 5,000 people. The authors of the smear were the president of the college, whose final term expires next spring, and the vice president, who will be taking over for

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  • EDUCATION is a Privilege

    EDUCATION is a Privilege0

    It’s undeniable that today’s education system has problems. Evidences of declining academics and behavior are everywhere in the schools.  But coming face to face with this reality leaves us with a big question: what do we do to right the ship? Furthermore, what does good education look like? Author and educator David Hicks provides an

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