Education

Diocletian’s Great Persecution of Christians: How it Began 1
- Education
- September 14, 2017
The rise of Christianity in Rome was neither linear nor neat. At various times, it was met with resistance and bloodshed. Yet prior to the rise of Emperor Diocletian (244 A.D. – 311 A.D.), Christians had lived relatively free of state persecution for many decades, a period Eusebius called “the little peace of the Church.”
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What Zhang Knows that Johnny Doesn’t 3
- Education
- September 13, 2017
China uses methods of teaching that would be scandalous in the U. S. Only thing is, they work. In a Wall Street Journal article, Lenora Chu explained what happened when she sent her child to school in Shanghai, China. As an American living in China, Chu decided to send her son to a local public
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DeVos Takes Aim at Obama-Era College Sexual Assault Guidelines 0
- Education
- September 8, 2017
In a major speech today, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos indicated that the Education Department may withdraw some of the regulatory “dark matter” discussed by CEI’s Wayne Crews, such as its April 4, 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter micromanaging college discipline. Crews’ 2016 congressional testimony described how agencies violate the Administrative Procedure Act by issuing “dark matter”—binding rules that have not gone through the notice
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Solitary Confinement is Quite Common In Public Schools 0
- Education
- September 7, 2017
If parents were to lock their children in a confined space for a lengthy period of time, it is highly likely that those parents would be arrested for child abuse and their parental rights threatened. (In fact, this just happened in Arizona recently.) If public schools do this, however, the outcome is quite different. The
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University Prof: Freshman Class Achieves 100 Percent Failure Rate on Diagnostic Test 0
- Education
- September 1, 2017
Americans are increasingly haunted by the fear that their schools are dumbing down lessons. This fear intensifies when “college-ready” students enroll in higher education and realize they’re not equipped to keep up with its academic demands. But this situation is not unique to American schools. As a university level instructor recently noted in The Guardian,
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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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