Noam Chomsky earlier this week was asked what he thought of Bernie Sanders’ political platform. Here’s how he responded: [H]e’s considered radical and extremist, which is a pretty interesting characterization, because he’s basically a mainstream New Deal Democrat. His positions would not have surprised President Eisenhower, who said, in fact, that anyone who does not
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In the past few years, various reports have surfaced regarding the gifted and talented students being left behind in our school systems. First there was the report that parents were taking their children out of the Minneapolis education system and personally driving them to other school districts. The reason? The Minneapolis district was focusing on
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For many parents, the most traumatic family battles are fought at the very place which should be a place of harmony and connection: the dinner table. The bad news is that those dinnertime battles are often the result of food habits that parents have unconsciously established. The good news, however, is that those habits can
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The Nation’s 2015 reading scores carry a serious message to parents: American students aren’t reading. It’s easy to pass the blame for this off on the schools, and in all likelihood, the education system is contributing to the general decline in reading. But do American parents also share part of the blame? I asked myself
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When The Nation’s Report Card released the 2015 reading scores for high schoolers, the public got confirmation of what it has long feared: student achievement has been gradually declining in recent decades. But is it possible that those scores could be improved by reintroducing Greek and Latin into school curriculum? According to a recent article
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In recent years, many parents seem to have answered the title question with a resounding, “Yes!” Because of this, many have raised their children in an environment in which it’s unclear precisely who’s the boss. As Leonard Sax has noted, this is one reason many children today seem out of control and are increasingly placed
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