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  • The True Culprit behind Standardized Tests

    The True Culprit behind Standardized Tests0

    If there’s one thing that has united teachers, unions, and parents in the last several years, it’s a hatred of standardized tests. Such tests, opponents complain, cause undue stress to teachers and students and inhibit learning in any number of ways. Given these concerns and frustrations, it’s understandable why parents would want their children to

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  • The True Cost of the Antiracism Grift

    The True Cost of the Antiracism Grift3

    The more months that pass, the more that “antiracism”—the fashionable ideology that rose to prominence in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd protests—is being exposed as a grift. As highlighted last week at Intellectual Takeout, Boston University recently opened an inquiry into Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research, to uncover, among other enigmas,

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  • The Trivium: The Foundation of Language Arts

    The Trivium: The Foundation of Language Arts6

    There’s a great deal of debate about what constitutes a good education. Our current education system seems to operate on the belief that how children are educated needs near constant tinkering and updating. Meanwhile, the number of individuals choosing education as a profession is on a steady decline, with a 19 percent drop in the

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  • The Triumph of Justice Amy Coney Barrett

    The Triumph of Justice Amy Coney Barrett0

    “There is a tendency in our profession,” Judge Amy Coney Barrett declared at the outset of her Senate confirmation hearing, “to treat the practice of law as all-consuming, while losing sight of everything else.” But, Barrett added in her Oct. 12 opening statement, “I never let the law define my identity or crowd out the

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  • The Trend Suggesting Millennials are Feeling Their Childless Void

    The Trend Suggesting Millennials are Feeling Their Childless Void0

    Millennials take a lot of heat for things. They’re rude, we’re told. They’re over-sensitive. They’re irresponsible. They can’t adult. Or so everyone says. But it’s time to take heart because they are excelling in something. According to The Economist, that something is the care of… houseplants: “Interest in houseplants as measured by internet search data

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  • The Treasures of This Earth Live Among Us

    The Treasures of This Earth Live Among Us5

    The treasures of this earth are indeed the gold, oil, and all the other resources we dig from the ground. But the greatest treasures on this planet are our family, relatives, friends, and caretakers.

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