Education

Why the Feds Should Stop Pushing Racial Quotas in Special Education 0
- Education
- October 5, 2017
No child should be barred based on her race from a public education program needed to address her learning disabilities or educational deficits. But the Obama administration ignored this basic principle in its December 2016 regulation interpreting the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. That regulation penalizes educational entities that don’t achieve racial quotas in special
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Homeschool Slow-Down? Not So Fast 0
- Education
- October 5, 2017
The Washington Post reported last week that after years of rapid growth, homeschooling rates seem to be leveling off. Between 1999 and 2012, the homeschooling population surged from 1.7 percent of the overall K-12 school-age population, to 3.4 percent—or approximately two million homeschoolers. Updated homeschooling data from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) indicate that
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Conservatives Strike Back Against ‘Ideological Tidal Wave’ in School District 0
- Education
- October 3, 2017
It’s widely believed that there is a strong liberal bias in America’s public school system. Yet, by all accounts, most conservative-minded Americans still send their children to the local public schools, in spite of a growing ideological divide in this country. But why? Some do it because of economic necessity; others, because they place a
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What Da Vinci Can Teach Us about Education 0
- Education
- October 3, 2017
A new biography of Leonardo da Vinci has a lot to say about what it is to be a truly educated person. Biographer Walter Isaacson, who also wrote recent well-regarded biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Steve Jobs, hones in on the most important aspect of da Vinci: His love of knowledge for its own
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Harvard Law Prof: Colleges have become ‘propaganda vehicles’0
- Education
- September 27, 2017
Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, appearing on Fox Business on Wednesday morning, offered a bleak assessment of the American university system in 2017. “Classrooms have become propaganda vehicles where captive audiences of students are told not how to think but what to think, particularly about sensitive issues like the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict,
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China’s Education System: A Case Against Importing It 0
- Education
- September 22, 2017
I remember a story my college economics professor told my class many years ago about the differences she saw between her American economics students and the Chinese ones she taught during frequent sabbaticals to Beijing. She said that the Chinese economics students generally had superior math skills and the ability to quickly solve complex calculus
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