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  • Schools Attempt to Keep Children in the ‘Magic Womb’

    Schools Attempt to Keep Children in the ‘Magic Womb’0

    Many children are hitting the books again for another school year in a way they never have before. Still in a COVID coma, many schools have opted for a distance learning model, or a hybrid model combining in-person and distance instruction. Yet even as we begin the new school year, reports are still emerging of

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  • Schools Are Wasting Student Time on Assignments Beneath Their Abilities

    Schools Are Wasting Student Time on Assignments Beneath Their Abilities0

    To look at international exams and results from various tests, one would think that America’s children are dimwits. Only a quarter of high school seniors are proficient in math. Thirty-seven percent of them are proficient in reading. And in science, only 22 percent make the grade. But while these stats make our children look somewhat

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  • Schools Are Tracking Your Child’s Mental Health—Whether You Like It or Not

    Schools Are Tracking Your Child’s Mental Health—Whether You Like It or Not0

    • September 24, 2018

    A worrying trend is emerging in schools across the country. With increasing regularity, school districts are tracking students’ mental health and raising flags if a screening shows something amiss.   Student mental health tracking is often framed in terms of safety or prevention, arguing that all kids should be screened to identify the few who

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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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