Education

Racial Quotas in Special Education Hurt Minorities Most 0
- Education
- December 19, 2017
Is it OK to sacrifice a child’s education in the name of preventing racial stereotyping? In a sane world, the answer would be “no.” But to the Obama administration, the answer was apparently “yes.” Because it thought that black and Hispanic children were wrongly stereotyped as needing special education, it issued a regulation in 2016
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Pssst…It’s Not Just Students Who Can’t Write …0
- Education
- December 14, 2017
In the world of professors, higher education, and academia, producing high-quality content is essential. Many academics dutifully follow this prescription and produce thousands of pages every year. There’s only one problem. As has been previously noted at Intellectual Takeout by Daniel Lattier, most of the academic work professors produce goes unread (unless you count the
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Against the Maternal State 0
- Education
- December 12, 2017
In the late nineteenth century, many Americans took pride in living in a country that boasted so much freedom. In describing their society and polity, they often contrasted them with what they called paternalism, which they believed was the rule in certain European countries, such as Germany, where a proto-welfare state began to be developed
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Why England’s Reading Scores Are Soaring While the U.S. Lags Behind 0
- Education
- December 5, 2017
There’s been increasing alarm in recent years as many Americans have realized that their children don’t know much in the areas of history, civics, geography, and writing. In retrospect, it appears that the emphasis placed on the core subjects of reading and math by various education laws such as No Child Left Behind may be
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Harvard Student Whose Father Escaped Communism Has a Message for Her Fellow Students 0
- Education
- December 5, 2017
Laura M. Nicolae has a message for her fellow students at Harvard: think twice before embracing communism. Nicolae, an applied mathematics major in the ’20 class, recently shared in the Crimson the story of how her father arrived in the United States. And it’s harrowing stuff: “In 1988, my twenty-six-year-old father jumped off a train
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Student: How Identity Politics Ruined My High School 0
- Education
- December 1, 2017
Owen Rickert always loved his school. The Blake School, a private college prep school, located in Hopkins, Minnesota, was a place he woke up excited to go to each morning. And then, about four years ago, something changed. “Slowly the unification of our great community began to deteriorate,” said Rickert, who had attended Blake since
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