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  • You’re Going to Have to Educate Yourself

    You’re Going to Have to Educate Yourself0

    Let’s face it: we all have holes in our education. In part, this is because we can only fit so much into the years of our formal education. But the holes in our education are also due to the fact that we no longer have a standard canon of sources that we are expected to

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  • Problem: 21% of Parents Don’t Require Their Kids to Do Chores

    Problem: 21% of Parents Don’t Require Their Kids to Do Chores0

    Ever feel like a meanie by requiring your kids to help with family chores, such as folding laundry or washing dishes? You shouldn’t, because as Time Magazine reports, children whose parents require them to do chores are likely to be more successful in life. Reporting on a recent survey from Funifi, TIME notes the ups

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  • Mother Jones: Only 4 Mass Shootings this Year

    Mother Jones: Only 4 Mass Shootings this Year0

    No doubt, you’ve seen a few headlines like this example from The Washington Post: In a rather interesting opinion piece in The New York Times, Mark Follman, an editor at Mother Jones, throws some cold water on the claim that there have been more mass-shootings this year than actual days of the year. Frankly, it’s

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  • It’s terrorism, but the vibe out there is strange.

    It’s terrorism, but the vibe out there is strange.0

    At this point, there is an odd sort of quiet on social media regarding the San Bernardino shootings. The list of what’s currently trending at mid-day on Friday after all of the revelations that indicate that the shooting was an act of terrorism is quite curious:  Planned Parenthood funding, Scott Weiland, Iowa, Facebook, and Laquan

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  • Is the U.S. an “Artificial Union”?

    Is the U.S. an “Artificial Union”?0

    Over 1,500 years ago, St. Augustine wrote his De Civitate Dei (“The City of God”) as the Roman Empire was on the verge of eventually falling to Odoacer in 476 A.D. In Book 19 of it, Augustine famously defined a society or “people” as a “multitude of rational creatures associated in a common agreement as

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  • What Happened to Doing Good Things in Secret?

    What Happened to Doing Good Things in Secret?0

    Yesterday, the internet was filled with praise for the story of a woman who bought a cake (pictured above) decorated by an employee with autism. NBC News reports:  “Lisa Sarber Aldrich of Grand Rapids wrote on Facebook that she went to a Meijer grocery store to pick out a cake when she asked a ‘bakery-looking

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  • The Wise Men Know What Wicked Things Are Written on the Sky

    The Wise Men Know What Wicked Things Are Written on the Sky0

    The end of the twentieth century of the Christian era is not far distant, and all about us things fall apart. There comes to my mind the last drawing from the pencil of William Hogarth, who died in 1764: it is a sufficient representation of the state of civilization today. Hogarth’s final drawing is known

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  • How One Teacher Discovered That iPads in the Classroom are a Bad Idea

    How One Teacher Discovered That iPads in the Classroom are a Bad Idea0

    In the last few years, countless school districts have passed initiatives to get iPads in the hands of every student. The rationale is that access to technology will improve learning and shrink achievement gaps between white and non-white students. But as teacher Launa Hall discovered, iPads in the classroom actually deter learning and other important

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  • High School Curriculum 200 Years Ago vs. Today

    High School Curriculum 200 Years Ago vs. Today2

    Has the curriculum in America’s high schools been “dumbed down”? The question is often asked, but many lack anything beyond anecdotal evidence to compare past curricula with the present.   So, to make an initial, humble offering for the sake of comparison, I thought I would post the curriculum of the first public high school

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