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What Does an Education System with “Tracks” Look Like?0
- June 24, 2015
The United States is increasingly criticized for having a “one-size-fits-all” public education system. In this system, students of varying abilities, talents, and desires are provided with a similar curriculum through high school and are prepared for the same goal of college. It is argued that this monolithic model of educating students leads to dumbed down academics and
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Are Gifted and Talented Students Being Left Behind?0
- June 23, 2015
We hear a lot about the efforts and plans to promote the progress of failing students in today’s public schools. But in our efforts to get those students caught up, are we also squelching the abilities and interests of our best and brightest students? The answer to that question seems to be yes, according to
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Oxford Students Can’t Write Either 0
- June 22, 2015
Writing ability has gone to pot in America. The latest statistics show that only 25% of students are proficient in writing. Most papers that college professors and high school teachers receive from students lack a clear thesis, correct paragraph structure, or proper grammar and punctuation. Employers frequently complain about the dearth of job applicants who can communicate through writing.
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Education is Not Magic 0
- June 19, 2015
Americans have traditionally expected more of education than it was capable of delivering by itself. In recent decades, many have looked to education as the means of solving poverty, inequality, and a number of other woes that plague our society. Of course, details of how education will do this are usually omitted. In his important 1965 essay “Education
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4 Proven Ways Fathers Improve Their Child’s Education 0
- June 19, 2015
If you could name one piece of advice your father gave you about education, what would it be? I asked myself this question the other day when I realized that Father’s Day was fast approaching. One particular phrase of my father’s immediately jumped to my mind: “Every day is a school day.” “How cliché,” you might
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5 Picture Reminders That America’s Public Schools Used to be Religious 0
- June 16, 2015
1. Horace Mann Photo – 1849 Horace Mann (1796-1859) is referred to as the “father of American public education.” Mann had religious motives behind founding the public school system, as illustrated in quotes like this one: “The universal diffusion and ultimate triumph of all-glorious Christianity itself must await the time when knowledge shall be diffused
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