Education

Do You Know Your Latin Abbreviations?0
- Education
- February 21, 2018
Answers: e.g. = “exempli gratia” (“for the sake of example”) i.e. = “id est” (“that is”) N.B. = “Nota Bene” (“note well”) p.s. = “post scriptum” (“after what has been written”) QED = “Quod Erat Demonstrandum” (“which was needing to be demonstrated”) R.I.P. = “Requiescat in Pace” (“may he rest in
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10 Things Schools, Parents and Communities Can Do Now to Prevent School Shootings 0
- Education
- February 16, 2018
After a shooter killed 17 people at a Florida high school, many have expressed frustration at the political hand-wringing over gun control and calls for prayer. As a parent, I understand the desire for practical responses to school shootings. I also absolutely believe the government should do more to prevent such incidents. But the gun
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Why Security Measures Won’t Stop School Shootings 0
- Education
- February 16, 2018
When deadly school shootings like the one that took place on Valentine’s Day in Broward County, Florida occur, often they are followed by calls for more stringent security measures. For instance, after the Jan. 23 case in which a 15-year-old student allegedly shot and killed two students and wounded 16 others at a small-town high
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Frederick Douglass Knew That Racial Identity Is No Antidote to Racial Injustice 0
- Education
- February 15, 2018
Frederick Douglass, the greatest of all American abolitionists, possibly the greatest American champion of the cause of equal rights, was born 200 years ago in February 1818. Perhaps the infant Douglass arrived on Feb. 14, as he liked to think, remembering a morning in his boyhood when his mother, enslaved as he was, walked miles
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Children Are the UN’s ‘Secret Weapon’ Against Climate Change 0
- Education
- February 13, 2018
The United Nations is an outspoken proponent of taking action against global warming, and enlisting youth organizations to participate in the cause has long been part of their strategy. Recently, however, UN panelists explained that getting young people involved against climate change isn’t just important. Rather, it was described as “one of the most effective
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Should Schools Purge Literary Classics From Reading Lists Because Students Feel ‘Uncomfortable’?0
- Education
- February 13, 2018
The English writer George Orwell once observed that the “most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” This idea is working itself out in one of Minnesota’s largest school districts. A decision to pull two of the most influential novels in recent American history, To Kill
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