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  • Today’s Schools Are Passing Kids Even When They Fail

    Today’s Schools Are Passing Kids Even When They Fail2

    • August 3, 2015

    Are schools increasingly passing students on to the next grade despite poor performance in class? That’s the issue recently explored by Jay Matthews in the Washington Post. Matthews describes the experiences of one parent who knew her daughter was deliberately ignoring her school work, yet was rewarded with a passing grade by her teacher: “A

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  • Today’s One-Room Schools: Why Families Love Them

    Today’s One-Room Schools: Why Families Love Them0

    When I was in grade school, one of the annual highlights of my summer was the day my friends and I went on a field trip to an old one-room schoolhouse. To all of us, the day was an opportunity to “be like Laura [Ingalls]” by dressing up, having spelling bees, and reading lessons out

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  • Today’s Man Bites Dog Story: Public School Teacher Takes On Unions

    Today’s Man Bites Dog Story: Public School Teacher Takes On Unions0

    • August 5, 2015

    Rebecca Friedrichs had a rude awakening as a young student teacher. Concerned about the physically abusive teacher in the class next door, she asked her own master teacher what they should do about the abuse. The answer she got? “Nothing.” Finding that these children were in harm’s way because their teacher was protected by unions

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  • Today’s High School Students Need More Vocational Training

    Today’s High School Students Need More Vocational Training0

    • September 25, 2015

    If you were a high school student and had the option to either go to college and accumulate a load of debt or start a job immediately after graduation making a decent, middle-class salary, which would you choose? For many of today’s young people, the latter option sounds like an ideal, but impossible, situation. But

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  • Today’s graduates are missing this one ‘common’ thing

    Today’s graduates are missing this one ‘common’ thing1

    In the years since the 2008 Recession, gallons of ink have been spilled giving advice to young people on how to land a decent paying job. It seems that a young person must do nothing less than have a hefty volunteer record, a perfect GPA from an ivy league school, and three to four internships

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  • Today’s College Students Aren’t Studying

    Today’s College Students Aren’t Studying0

    Most of those in the Intellectual Takeout audience already believe that college education has become a shadow of its former self… that its curriculum has been significantly dumbed down… and that its students spend more time partying than hitting the books. Here is just one more statistic that confirms that belief. According to a study

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