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  • The Berkeley Battles Are a Sign of Things to Come

    The Berkeley Battles Are a Sign of Things to Come0

    Just how close are we to repeating the political violence of interwar Germany? How bad is it, and how bad can it get? ??Populist-right demonstrators and radical-left protesters clashed in Berkeley, California yesterday. The belligerents used such weapons as fists, feet, rocks, pepper spray, smoke bombs, barricades, and a trash dumpster/battering ram. There was one

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  • The Berenstain Bears and Traditional Parenting

    The Berenstain Bears and Traditional Parenting2

    I consider myself a scholarly expert on the Berenstain Bears. Not because I’ve actually written any scholarly works on the series of books by Stan and Jan Berenstain, but just because I’m an academic and I have read and reread dozens of Berenstain books for more than a decade with first one daughter and now

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  • The Benevolent Sexist in a Mannerly Man

    The Benevolent Sexist in a Mannerly Man4

    Little boys are sexist. At least, that’s what recent headlines want us to believe. A new study hit newsstands the other day, claiming that young children, boys especially, exhibit indicators of sexism even into early middle school. This sexism, however, is not likely to be aggressive, mean-spirited behavior toward females. In fact, it could be

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  • The Benefits of Plunging Public Kindergarten Enrollment Rates

    The Benefits of Plunging Public Kindergarten Enrollment Rates0

    Public school enrollment has consistently declined across most states this academic year, and there are new signs that the trend will continue this fall. On Thursday, New York City’s education department reported that kindergarten applications for the 2021/2022 school year dropped 12 percent, from 63,000 to under 55,500 applications. Overall New York City kindergarten enrollment

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  • The Benefits of Memorization in the Age of AI

    The Benefits of Memorization in the Age of AI0

    In 2014, I was a prompter for a local homeschool poetry festival. With copies of all the poems to be recited, from pre-K kids to highschoolers, I sat in the front row, ready to provide a word or a line from the poem if someone on stage lost their train of thought. That evening, I

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  • The Benefits of Delayed Schooling

    The Benefits of Delayed Schooling0

    If you are one of those parents who decided to delay your child’s schooling, or forgo it altogether, you have plenty of company.  According to Education Week, in the years 2008-2010 fewer than half of U.S. children under age five attended preschool, and the number of stay-at-home-parents has been rising over the past decade. Additionally, there are more

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