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  • Don’t Be a Lazy Atheist

    Don’t Be a Lazy Atheist0

    • February 5, 2016

    While lecturing on the atheist Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) in graduate school, my university professor lamented about the state of atheism today. Men such as Feuerbach, he explained, were passionate in their atheism, and undertook a thorough study of a religion such as Christianity in order to criticize it. (Feuerbach’s critique of Christianity is encapsulated in

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  • ‘Fair and Equitable’ Discipline Policies: Unfair to Most Students?

    ‘Fair and Equitable’ Discipline Policies: Unfair to Most Students?0

    If you’ve been following education news lately, you’ve likely heard about the complaints against Success Academy Charter Schools in New York. The complaints come from parents of children with disabilities whose poor behavior eventually caused them to be removed from the school: “Consistent with SACS’ [Success Academy Charter Schools] philosophy, Success FG [a specific Success

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  • Martin Shkreli: If morality is relative, why are we outraged?

    Martin Shkreli: If morality is relative, why are we outraged?0

    The world loathes Martin Shkreli, indeed he may have made himself “the most hated man in America.” He earned that reputation when, as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, he hiked the cost of Daraprim, “the drug … used to fight infections in patients suffering from AIDS and other conditions”, from $13.50 to $750 – a 5,000%

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  • Are Standardized Tests A Necessary or Unnecessary Evil?

    Are Standardized Tests A Necessary or Unnecessary Evil?0

    Spring is on its way – or so says the Groundhog – and with it, the annual battery of school tests and assessments. If recent years are any indication, this testing barrage will likely be met with reports of stressed students, frustrated teachers, and angry parents who decide to have their child “opt out” of

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  • Should the Education System Embrace ‘Subsidiarity’?

    Should the Education System Embrace ‘Subsidiarity’?0

    Reports of failure in public schools tend to be systemic. Stories of success tend to be localized. Is this a reason to promote subsidiarity in the public school system? Subsidiarity is a principle that calls for decision-making power and responsibility to be held at the lowest level as much as possible. Applied to schools, this

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  • What is a friend?

    What is a friend?0

    A recently released study by Oxford University claims to be “the first real attempt to test whether online social media do allow us to increase the size of our social networks.” The conclusions of the study? Your Facebook friends aren’t your friends – except for, maybe, four of them. “…there is a cognitive constraint on

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