Education

5 Reasons Nearly Every Parent Should Be Homeschooling Their Kids 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, MomThink
- August 10, 2026
As homeschooling goes mainstream, some contend that homeschooling works for many families, but it isn’t a good idea for everyone. That is not the case. There are, frankly, fewer reasons to not homeschool than to homeschool. Education outside the home, especially in government schools, should be treated as the exception to the general rule of
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The Benefits of Memorization in the Age of AI 0
- Culture, Education, Featured
- August 6, 2026
In 2014, I was a prompter for a local homeschool poetry festival. With copies of all the poems to be recited, from pre-K kids to highschoolers, I sat in the front row, ready to provide a word or a line from the poem if someone on stage lost their train of thought. That evening, I
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7 Wrong Assumptions About Public Schools 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured
- July 24, 2026
A news blurb on back-to-school sales gave me a tough dose of reality the other day. Even though most of the nation is currently in the throes of summer heat and humidity, the truth is that kids will be hitting the books before we know it. According to a 2025 EdChoice survey, 80% of those kids
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Stay Sane and Save the Republic 1
- Culture, Education, Featured, History, Politics, Western Civilization
- July 13, 2026
I’ve marveled before about how statements of the past can read like today’s headlines, especially those like the following taken from the front flap of Martin L. Gross’ 1997 “The End of Sanity”: “At the University of Pennsylvania, separate dorms have been set up for minorities in the name of racial harmony….” “An apprehended mugger
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Is There Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God?0
- Culture, Education, Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Western Civilization
- May 22, 2026
Science and God are often set in opposition to one another. But this is a false dilemma. Not only did many prominent early scientists (such as Albert the Great, Sir Isaac Newton, and Robert Boyle) believe in God, but scientific discoveries themselves increasingly point to the existence of a Creator who transcends the physical universe.
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Why Do Reading Scores Keep Declining?0
- Culture, Education, Featured, Politics, Western Civilization
- May 20, 2026
Reading scores for students in the United States have declined significantly in the last 15 years, a slide which continues in the most recent Nation’s Report Card. Some point to the school closures during the Covid pandemic as cause for this decline. Doubtless the lockdowns had an impact, yet data shows that test scores were already
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