Education

5 Homeschool Stereotypes That Are Just Plain Wrong 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured
- September 23, 2026
A young volunteer firefighter, Andrew Coates, recently made headlines when his application for a paid position doing the job he loves was rejected. The reason? He was homeschooled. According to the city’s human resources director, the high school diploma that the paid firefighter position required needed to be from an accredited high school. Because Coates’
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3 Reasons Shakespeare Would Fail a Modern MFA Program 0
- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature
- September 15, 2026
Today, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programs in creative writing are often the norm for people who want to become serious about writing since they provide a structured, formal education in how to write fiction and poetry. With over 200 MFA programs in the U.S., one would expect we’d see more literary achievement than ever
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MIT Admits AI Can Finish Any Undergrad Assignment. Now What?0
- Culture, Education, Featured, Science
- September 4, 2026
When I graduated from college in 2016, the mind-numbingly advanced technologies currently on offer to today’s undergraduate students simply weren’t available. I had to hunt through books and navigate innumerable online articles to find a single quote needed for an assignment. Sometimes this research would take days, sometimes weeks. That time, however recent it may
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Children Aren’t Jam Jars 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured
- August 28, 2026
My sister works at a local farm store, and a few weeks ago she brought home an array of jams her employer could not sell. Why? Well, someone hadn’t labeled them upon canning. Unless you cracked open a jar and tasted a spoonful, it was hard to tell if the orangish spread was apricot, pumpkin, or peach. A label would have solved this problem, and its absence created an identification issue, yet the
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How To Make Sure Your Kids’ School Is Properly Teaching Them 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured
- August 27, 2026
Every year, news commentators from across the political spectrum decry the fallen state of American education. The tripod once known as reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmatic is still crucial to all learning, yet survey after survey, test after test, reveals dismal results in student performance. Following the release of this data comes the finger pointing. Universities blame secondary
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The Line Between Disagreement and Violence on Campus Is Rapidly Disappearing 0
- Culture, Education, Featured, Politics
- August 26, 2026
There was a time, not too long ago, when intellectual disagreement could be had in good faith. Students were encouraged to debate an idea, defend it, and walk away sharper for having engaged in discourse. Now, for a growing share of college students, the only acceptable way to reconcile disagreement is to punch your interlocutor
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