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Good Grief! Public School “Neutralizes” A Charlie Brown Christmas 0
- Culture
- December 18, 2015
If you’ve been following the news lately, you’ve probably heard of the kerfuffle over the Charlie Brown Christmas play at a Kentucky elementary school. According to a local newspaper, a complaint that the play included too many religious themes caused the school to cut the scene where Linus recites part of the nativity account from
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Some Books Are Meant to Be STUDIED Not READ 0
- Education
- December 18, 2015
It can be satisfying and enjoyable to read books without too much strain – the type that you can get through in 2-3 days. Some of these books are very good. But I worry that many people – both students and graduates – expect this of every book, and are too soon discouraged when they
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The Problem of Neutral Rhetoric 0
- Culture
- December 18, 2015
Every political argument makes a moral claim. This may seem like an obvious statement, but it is one that those who craft our political rhetoric seem determined to obscure. We are inclined to appeal to concepts such as tolerance and freedom—which are, of course, moral concepts—as if they are ways to avoid reflecting on the
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Educator: Young Children Need Conversation, Not Preschool 3
- Education
- December 18, 2015
Advocating for state-funded preschool is still a popular political move, as a potential candidate for the New Jersey governorship demonstrated earlier this week. But if early childhood educator Erika Christakis is right, politicians may want to put a hold on the preschool push. Writing in the January/February issue of The Atlantic, Christakis reinforces the idea
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Professor Tells Parents: “You Are Being Played”0
- Education
- December 18, 2015
Increasingly, it seems, professors are waking up to the fact that their universities are no longer places of learning. The latest to come to this realization is Dr. Ron Srigley, professor of classical political philosophy/religion/literature at the University of Prince Edward Island. He recently penned a lengthy essay on the subject for the Los Angeles
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Public school asks students to sing ‘Allahu Akbar’0
- Culture
- December 18, 2015
Two stories are making national news. The first comes out of Virginia and the second takes place in Minnesota. In Virginia, a Riverheads High School world geography class assignment had “students complete an assignment that involved practicing calligraphy and writing a Muslim statement of faith, also known as the shahada, which translates as: ‘There is
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