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  • 5 Logic Fails That Are WAY Too Common

    5 Logic Fails That Are WAY Too Common0

    In her famous 1947 essay “The Lost Tools of Learning,” Dorothy Sayers wrote:     “Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy throughout Western Europe is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to

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  • What American Students Learned about the Pilgrims in 1913 vs. Today

    What American Students Learned about the Pilgrims in 1913 vs. Today0

    I was reminded that Thanksgiving is fast approaching when I drove by a local school the other day and saw children leaving the building wearing Pilgrim and Indian hats. This morning I got to thinking: the story of the Pilgrims’ arrival in America is quite a common lesson in the early elementary classroom, but is

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  • Why a Public School Teacher Decided to Homeschool

    Why a Public School Teacher Decided to Homeschool0

    In discussions concerning the pros and cons of homeschooling, it’s not all that uncommon to see public school teachers butt heads with homeschool parents and supporters. But according to a recent news report out of Virginia, one public school teacher has embraced homeschooling wholeheartedly: “At her family’s home in Albemarle County, Mary Soisson homeschooled her

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  • Chesterton Defends the Crusades

    Chesterton Defends the Crusades0

    The Crusades are often used as a cudgel in an attempt to paint Christianity as barbaric, hypocritical, and ultimately dismissible. Doing so, of course, isn’t new. G.K. Chesterton, the prolific author who lived at the turn of the last century, encountered the argument as well. His response found in The Way of the Desert, the

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  • Is this where equality takes us?

    Is this where equality takes us?0

    Making the rounds recently was a story out of Colorado Springs about the discriminatory nature of the police fitness test. From CBS Denver: “Last Friday the Colorado Springs Police Department agreed to the demands of 12 female officers who filed a civil suit claiming the fitness tests are discriminatory. All the officers were over the

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  • How Much Data Does the Government Have on Your Child?

    How Much Data Does the Government Have on Your Child?0

    • November 12, 2015

    Have you ever wondered what the government knows about your child? According to an article in today’s Washington Post they may know a lot more than you realize… and that knowledge may negatively affect your child’s future. “Most student data is gathered at school via multiple routes; either through children’s online usage or information provided

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