Education

5 Reasons House-Building Should Be a Part of High School Curriculum 0
- Education
- January 4, 2018
By now, we’ve grown accustomed to calls for more career and technical education in high school. The reason for these calls is twofold. First, not everyone will go to college, so giving students an introduction to other career alternatives gives them life purpose and direction. Second, practical life skills like woodworking and welding are fast
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The Low Academic Quality of Too Many Teachers 0
- Education
- January 4, 2018
My recent columns have focused on the extremely poor educational outcomes for black students. There’s enough blame for all involved to have their fair share. That includes students who are hostile and alien to the educational process and have derelict, uninterested home environments. After all, if there is not someone in the home to ensure
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University Offers ‘Problem of Whiteness’ Class, Again 0
- Education
- December 29, 2017
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will reintroduce a class this spring that teaches students why being white is a bad thing. The “Problem of Whiteness” course—part of the African Cultural Studies program—makes its mission to help students “understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy.” The class will also investigate how
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Massachusetts Adopted Common Core – and It’s Beginning to Show 0
- Education
- December 19, 2017
Massachusetts has long been known as a leader in American education. As early as 1647, the state decreed that every sizeable town form a school to ensure that children learn to read and write. The state’s prominence in education has continued through the 21st century, in which Massachusetts is often held up as a model
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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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