Education

Scottish NYU Student: U.S. Universities ‘Stifling’ and ‘Dangerously Insular’0
- Education
- August 24, 2017
In a recent article for The Spectator, New York University journalism major Madeleine Kearns wrote about her first year at a U.S. university. The experience she describes does not sound very positive. Kearns, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland describes an environment that would have looked like a parody of a university setting a generation
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Scholars Propose Public Schooling for Babies to Fight Inequality 0
- Education
- August 22, 2017
In my years as a music teacher, I learned one very important thing. One could start teaching a child an instrument when they entered kindergarten, but the going would often be slow and the lessons a strain for both teacher and student. Once a child hit age seven, however, things began clicking at a much
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The Quiet Exodus From Mass Schooling 3
- Education
- August 22, 2017
Parents are fed up. As mass schooling becomes more restrictive, more standardized and more far-reaching into a child’s young life, many parents are choosing alternatives. Increasingly, these parents are reclaiming their child’s education and are refocusing learning around children, family, and community in several different ways. With back-to-school time upon us, more than two million
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Elementary School to Remove ‘Conformity’ Posters Amid Uproar 0
- Education
- August 18, 2017
In case there was any ambiguity over the idea that mass schooling values and rewards conformity and compliance, an elementary school in Florida has made it very clear. At Deer Park Elementary School in Pasco County, signs appeared this week showing a hierarchy of behaviors from good to bad. “Democracy” was at the top, “Anarchy”
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Should Students Be on a First-Name Basis with Their Professors?0
- Education
- August 17, 2017
As the new school year quickly approaches, college freshmen will soon learn the proper way to address their new instructors. No longer are the go-to titles of “Mr.” and “Ms.” commonly used like they are for K-12 teachers; rather, “Professor,” “Doctor,” and first names are thrown in. The pertinent question today asks whether it’s okay
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Why Note-Taking by Hand Is Better for Your Brain 0
- Education
- August 15, 2017
We all know Aesop’s fable about the Tortoise and the Hare but few of us really believe, in the real world, that slowcoaches like the tortoise have a cat in hell’s chance of beating those in life’s fast lane. Few really believe, with John Milton, that “they also serve who only stand and wait.” Those
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