Today’s education system is increasingly repeating the “iPads for everyone” mantra. In an effort to improve student performance, school districts in every state from California to Pennsylvania to Minnesota to Colorado and on to Illinois have launched expensive initiatives to get little fingers swiping screens in the classroom. But have these initiatives been misguided? Brand
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Capitalism is considered by many to be the best system for ensuring freedom in the economic realm. But is the system of free market economics promoted by advocates such as Milton Friedman really that free? Not according to professor William Cavanaugh of DePaul University of Chicago. In a book chapter entitled “Freedom and
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I barely knew my father. As is typical of my generation, my parents separated and then divorced when I was only four or five. After picking up the pieces of his shattered existence, my father reentered my life with some regularity when I was about 8 or 9. And by that, I mean I got
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A few years back, I met an intern who was working with a conservative group. I suspect a lot of folks would read that and consider this sort of person to be a Bible-thumping troglodyte. Au contraire. During a conversation about pop culture, we turned to the TV show Desperate Housewives. Here, I was thoroughly
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In the last 20 years homeschooling has gone mainstream, and homeschooled students are often highly praised for their accomplishments. But some skeptics remain, many of whom are teachers themselves. But as it turns out, teachers and homeschoolers may share some of the same critiques about today’s public education system. According to homeschool mom Melissa Roy,
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A year or so ago, my sister was tasked to look after two children in a classroom/tutorial type of setting. After ignoring repeated instructions to sit down and perform the task at hand, the child on my sister’s right grinned mischievously and said, “I can’t. I didn’t have my medication today.” The child on her
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