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‘Adulting’ School is Great – If It Happens in Elementary School 0
- Culture
- April 26, 2017
By now many have heard about the “adulting” school in Maine, which teaches young, college-and-career-age professionals to live responsible and self-sufficient lives. Among the topics covered in adulting school are cooking, household management, and financial basics. Not surprisingly, the adulting school has been met with outrage, not because the American public disapproves of the subjects
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Harvard Poll Finds that Millennials Basically Live in Bubbles 0
- Education
- April 26, 2017
A new poll from Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP) reveals that millennials, or people aged 18 to 29, are enclosed in ideological bubbles. Their social and professionals circles are largely segregated along partisan lines: conservatives interact almost exclusively with conservatives, liberals with liberals. Here’s a snapshot of the poll findings: More conservatives know
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Is School Curriculum Preventing Kids from Reading?0
- Education
- April 26, 2017
When I was five, I nabbed the book my mother was reading out loud and used my fledgling phonics to sound out the captions below the pictures. Since then, reading has been one of my favorite pastimes. But when I was in second grade, my English curriculum dictated a unit study on the Beatrix Potter
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The Benefits of Delayed Schooling 0
- Education
- April 25, 2017
If you are one of those parents who decided to delay your child’s schooling, or forgo it altogether, you have plenty of company. According to Education Week, in the years 2008-2010 fewer than half of U.S. children under age five attended preschool, and the number of stay-at-home-parents has been rising over the past decade. Additionally, there are more
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Why Teaching Proper Manners to Kids is More Important Today Than Ever 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2017
Is it me or are bad displays of manners and generally rude behavior all around us? It turns out I’m not the only one who thinks that. According to a recent survey by the Associated Press, 74 percent of Americans think manners and behavior have deteriorated in the United States over the past several decades.
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How J.R.R. Tolkien Responded to News of the Atomic Bomb 0
- History
- April 25, 2017
On Aug. 9, 1945, the day the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb—this one on the Japanese city of Nagasaki—J.R.R. Tolkien penned a letter to his son, Christopher Tolkien. Here is what he wrote: “The news today about ‘Atomic bombs’ is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent
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