Education

Why I Gave Up Latin, and How It Changed My Life 262
- Education
- December 20, 2024
In the homeschool arena where I grew up, knowledge of Latin was considered the hallmark of a well-educated child. As a mother who now is immersed in homeschool and private school social circles, I hear Latin’s praises sung on a regular basis, especially, and understandably, in those families and groups with classical approaches to learning.
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Against Scolianormativity 4
- Education, Featured, MomThink
- December 12, 2024
Scolianormative (adj.): The assumption that behaviors defined by institutionalized schooling are “normal.” An assumption that became pervasive in industrialized societies in which institutionalized schooling became the norm that resulted in marginalizing and harming millions of children. Once society began to question scolianormativity, gradually people began to realize that the norms set by institutionalized schooling were
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Hope for American Education?5
- Culture, Education, Featured, MomThink
- November 25, 2024
Over the years, I’ve written extensively about the decline—nay, crisis—of American education (see here, here, and here, for instance). During the 20th century, our universities were steadily infiltrated and usurped by Marxists, socialists, and postmodernists, and the consequences have been dire. “Wokeism” and the catastrophic absurdities of everything from Gender Theory to Queer Studies to
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What Would Really Happen If We End the US Department of Education?5
- Education, Featured, MomThink, Politics
- November 21, 2024
After the recent presidential election victory by Donald Trump, perennial calls to end the US Department of Education grew louder. With Republicans gaining control of the US Senate, and retaining control of the US House of Representatives as well, the prospect of eliminating the department became more plausible. But don’t hold your breath. When Trump
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‘Cultural Appropriation’ in Writing: Why Authors Aren’t Restricted to Experience 1
- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature
- November 7, 2024
Going to class rarely makes me feel tense, but this time—sitting in an upper-level writing ethics course—I was scared to speak up. My class was discussing cultural appropriation: whether it was right for majority-race authors to take on minority-race perspectives in their work. My classmates were almost universally against the idea, saying that a person
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I Question the Protests on College Campuses Like Mine. Here’s Why.6
- Culture, Education, Featured
- November 1, 2024
Tensions about the Israel-Palestine conflict came to a head on many college campuses last spring. Tents arrived as students camped out for days, sometimes weeks. Some protests were disbanded through peaceful negotiation with administrators, while others were broken up by riot police, including at my own school. The result has been anything but peaceful. Students
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