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  • The 5 Likeliest Reasons for an Airline Disaster

    The 5 Likeliest Reasons for an Airline Disaster0

    News of any terrible air accident instantly raises questions about aircraft safety and the threat of terrorism. But until the facts are known, it is unwise to speculate on what might actually have caused a specific crash. What we do know is that there are several causes that are more likely to occur than any

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  • The 5 Essentials of a Good Teacher

    The 5 Essentials of a Good Teacher0

    The famous Vergara vs. California case, which held “that several key job protections for teachers are so harmful to students that they deprive children of their constitutional right to an education,” is back in court. Unhappy with the original decision, the teachers unions brought their case to the appellate court yesterday, hoping to gain back

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  • The 5 Best Books on Education

    The 5 Best Books on Education0

    There are a lot of books on education, but few that are very good. Here are five books that cut to the chase of what education is and how it should be done: 1) Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, by Werner Jaeger. Jaeger was a German scholar writing in the early to mid-20th century. He

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  • The 5 ‘Isms’ That Destroyed Education

    The 5 ‘Isms’ That Destroyed Education0

    It is increasingly believed that the United States’ education system has lost its way; that it is in crisis. During the century-long reign of progressivism in U.S. schools, basic proficiency has declined, the racial and economic achievement gaps have not been closed (in fact, they’ve widened), and American students have fallen behind their international peers.

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  • The 4 Horsemen of the Philosophical Apocalypse

    The 4 Horsemen of the Philosophical Apocalypse0

    Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977) was the dean of Yale Law School, the president of the University of Chicago, and one of the more influential philosophers of education in the 20th century. In a stirring passage from a series of lectures he gave in 1951, Hutchins identified four intellectual trends that had been absolutely disastrous for

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  • The 4 Gods of the Public Education System

    The 4 Gods of the Public Education System1

    In the eyes of most people, America’s public education system is the secular alternative to religious, faith-based schools. But as I and others have argued, this dichotomy is false. The public education system also promotes a kind of religion, which has its own creed, rituals, and gods. In his book The End of Education: Redefining

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