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  • Schools are Teaching Kids to Have Emotional “Meta-Moments”?!?

    Schools are Teaching Kids to Have Emotional “Meta-Moments”?!?0

    One of the hottest topics in modern education is the need to teach kids emotional skills. This year, as the Seattle Times reports, several Seattle school districts are adopting a Yale-developed program called “RULER” (“Recognize, Understand, Label, Express and Regulate emotions”) to teach kids “emotional smarts alongside academics.”  The program is predictably bizarre-sounding and touchy-feely. Students

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  • Schools Are Now Seeking ‘Racially Conscious’ Teachers

    Schools Are Now Seeking ‘Racially Conscious’ Teachers0

    In the fall issue of Thinking Minnesota, Katherine Kersten offers a deep-dive look into the social justice activism that is beginning to take hold in many of America’s schools. And so far the results have not been pretty. Kersten, an attorney and a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, shows that one

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  • Schooling Was for the Industrial Era, Unschooling Is for the Future

    Schooling Was for the Industrial Era, Unschooling Is for the Future0

    Our current compulsory schooling model was created at the dawn of the Industrial Age. As factories replaced farm work and production moved swiftly outside of homes and into the larger marketplace, 19th century American schooling mirrored the factories that most students would ultimately join. The bells and buzzers signaling when students could come and go,

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  • School’s Policy of ‘Approving’ Cold Lunches Sparks Backlash

    School’s Policy of ‘Approving’ Cold Lunches Sparks Backlash0

    It has become common for schools to not only impart knowledge to children, but to also take care of a basic need of life, namely, food. This is evidenced through the presence of school lunch programs and now even breakfast. The last few years demonstrate that schools are no longer content with offering meals to

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  • School’s Out Forever?

    School’s Out Forever?0

    With just about every public school in the country closed at this time, the only way for kids to get an education is at home. Many see this as nothing less than tragic. Writing in Education Week, Stephen Sawchuk claims that schools are an “absolute necessity for the functioning of civic culture, and even more

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  • School’s Out and It’s Time to Revamp Education

    School’s Out and It’s Time to Revamp Education0

    This past weekend, I watched the original version of Red Dawn, the movie about a joint Soviet, Cuban, and Nicaraguan invasion of the United States. A group of teenagers escape to the mountains and resist these invaders. After their first skirmish in which they kill three Russian soldiers, a girl seated by the fire says, “Things

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