Education

Homeschool Mom Receives Visit from the State Over Field Trip 0
- Education
- August 31, 2017
The Great Solar Eclipse of 2017 was met with a variety of responses by schools across the country. Some announced they would close for the day for fear that the children under their care would accidentally look at the sun and encounter eye damage. Others remained open out of fear that children would not be
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The Reason So Many Kids Can’t Finish College 0
- Education
- August 31, 2017
Many students are heading back to school and hitting the books in hopes of earning that precious piece of paper known as a college degree. But according to The Los Angeles Times, the many students who earned a high school degree from Los Angeles Unified School District are having difficulty earning one from college. In
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s Destitute Mom Gave Him One Hell of an Education 0
- Education
- August 31, 2017
J.R.R. Tolkien’s father died when he was just four years old. The famous author, best known for The Hobbit and his Lord of the Rings trilogy, was raised by his mother, Mabel, who took great pains to see that her young son received a proper education. Mabel did not disappoint. Authors Philip Zaleski and Carol
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Mark Lilla: My Students Are Consumed with Their Own Identities 0
- Education
- August 29, 2017
The New Yorker, one of the last great literary publications still in existence, recently ran a fascinating interview with Mark Lilla. For those unfamiliar with Lilla, he is a professor at Columbia who caused a bit of a fuss last November when he wrote an article for the New York Times imploring fellow liberals to
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3 Back to School Thoughts from G.K. Chesterton 0
- Education
- August 28, 2017
Every year, the approach of fall signals to children and parents that it’s time to gear up and begin the cycle of packing lunches, picking out clothes, racing to the bus stop, and coming home at night with armloads of books and homework once again. But while parents and children across America know this drill
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Did Medieval Medicine Ever Work?1
- Education
- August 28, 2017
It all began as one of those Friday afternoon projects that medical researchers sometimes do to satisfy curiosity. No one expected it to work. The researchers were testing medieval medical remedies by replicating a 1000-year-old recipe for an eye salve. They were prepared to see it prove that medieval medicine was backward and even superstitious.
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