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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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  • The 3 Ways One Pioneer Mother Taught Her Children to Love Reading

    The 3 Ways One Pioneer Mother Taught Her Children to Love Reading0

    In a recent conversation, a friend of mine shared how one of her children had been diagnosed with dyslexia. They were working to overcome the difficulty, but the obstacle was still troubling to her as a mother. “After all,” she mourned, “children learn so much more if they’re able to read. They miss so much

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  • The 3 Top Reasons Parents Homeschool Children

    The 3 Top Reasons Parents Homeschool Children0

    Although homeschool anecdotes are a dime a dozen, hardcore statistics on this emerging education trend are often few and far between. But on Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education released the latest official numbers on homeschooling in America. Not surprisingly, they continue to rise. The study, conducted on statistics from 2012, shows that roughly 1.8

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