Few treatises on education have had as much influence in modern times as John Henry Newman’s (1801-1890) Idea of a University – a collection of lectures first published in 1852. One scholar has gone so far as to write that “modern thinking on university education is a series of footnotes to Newman’s lectures and essays.”
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We’ve reached the dog days of summer, and it’s time for many people to head back to school. Increasingly, though, many children are not heading back to the normal district school to which they are assigned. Instead, many parents are choosing to send their children to language immersion schools where almost all of the instruction
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According to a poll done by Pew Research in December 2014, less than half of American kids now live in a traditional family. You can see the massive decline of children living in a traditional family in the chart below: Many young Americans have no recollection of a world when “normal” was kids living
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According to an editorial in The Economist, the Black Lives Matter campaign has some legitimate complaints, but hints that their excessive rhetoric may work against resolutions. The article – “What the Black Lives Matter campaign gets wrong” – presents one of the more balanced (I’ll let you judge whether “balanced” means “correct”) views of the movement
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On the Black Lives Matter website you will find a list of “Demands”, which include the following: The arrest of officer Darren Wilson. National policy aimed at redressing systemic racism in law enforcement. A discontinuance of federal aid in the form of military weaponry to local law enforcement. The bringing to justice of all officers involved in
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