Education

Time to Give the Hook to Preferred Pronouns 26
- Culture, Education, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- October 3, 2025
Many years ago, my elementary school teachers taught that a pronoun must match its antecedent – the noun to which it refers – in number, gender, and person. In “John read that rule from his book,” the pronoun “his” is singular, masculine, and third-person. That’s straight-up grammar. Yet every week I read online writers who
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Free Speech Always Comes With a Price Tag 24
- Culture, Education, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- October 1, 2025
Imagine two 20-something strangers, Joe and Mike, standing elbow to elbow at the open bar of a large wedding reception. The bartender refreshes their drinks, they happen to turn at the same time to face the crowded hall, and Joe points to a woman in a red dress on the dance floor. “Man, look at
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Insurgency the Peaceful Way 29
- Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- September 26, 2025
Before becoming the U.S. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth wrote half-a-dozen books. The only one that didn’t deal with military affairs and American warriors was his 2023 “Battle for the American Mind,” in which Hegseth and co-writer David Goodwin addressed the failures of American education. It discussed the century-long progressive movement that nearly buried classical
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Roughly 2 in 3 of America’s 12th-graders Can’t Read. Here’s Why.30
- Education, Family, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 10, 2025
I was chatting with the head of a private school last fall when she made an interesting observation. Like many private schools, her school experienced a flood of parents in the wake of Covid who saw what their children were taught during the online public school classroom experience and wanted to give them a far
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‘If You Don’t Have to Throw the Kids in the Bathtub, They Haven’t Played Hard Enough.’31
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- September 3, 2025
A guard in a Wabash, Ind., prison gave me that title. The prison was featured in a 2017 video, “Free the Kids—Dirt Is Good,” where inmates are permitted two precious hours a day outdoors. The short film contrasts that privilege with data showing that children spend less than an hour a day outside their house. At
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Mike Rowe and the Need to Bring Back Shop Class 56
- Culture, Economics, Education, Featured, Uncategorized
- August 21, 2025
A few years ago, I interviewed a married couple for an article, who, although only in their mid-20s, already owned a thriving business. This couple had met in a high school welding class – a fact which prompted the husband to joke that “sparks flew.” Humor aside, I was intrigued to hear that a welding class
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