Education

5 Tips on How to Successfully Educate Children 0
- Education
- June 26, 2017
Sometimes it seems that education tips and theories are a dime a dozen. This is particularly so in the modern age, when parents are inundated with recommendations on the best schools and educational practices. The challenging thing about the proliferation of information is that it becomes difficult to discern simple and straightforward truth. It is
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Over 6,000 Title IX Complaints Filed by One Person Last Year 0
- Education
- June 26, 2017
Even modest and long-overdue budget cuts draw criticism. The Trump administration proposed cutting the budget of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) from $108.5 million to $106.7 million — a “minuscule amount,” notes education researcher George Leef. Yet the liberal columnist Colbert King claimed this tiny 1.66% cut would have somehow “gutted” civil rights
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Homeschool is Booming, New Study Shows 0
- Education
- June 23, 2017
A report issued this week by The Pioneer Institute, a Boston-based a public policy think tank, sheds light on the rapid growth and diversity of the U.S. homeschooling population. Co-authored by William Heuer and William Donovan, the comprehensive white paper explains that despite a paucity of support from government officials–and outright opposition by the nation’s
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Why Your Kids Should Avoid Summer Reading Programs 0
- Education
- June 22, 2017
Libraries are ideal examples of local, self-directed learning hubs that support all members of a community in learning naturally, without coercion. Late-nineteenth century steel magnate, Andrew Carnegie, who created many of the first public libraries, stated: “A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never
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5 Lost Literary Works That Would Be Great to Read 0
- Education
- June 21, 2017
These literary works were written by authors that are recognized as some of the best of all time. Though many titles which bear their names are still popular and in circulation today, each one of these authors composed literary pieces which have been lost to history. Though we may have a historical record of their
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This is What Happens When Education Loses Its Purpose 0
- Education
- June 20, 2017
The student protesters at Evergreen State College in Washington are becoming more unreasonable. In a May 24 meeting with the school’s seemingly spineless president, George Bridges, the protestors demanded (among other things) that he excuse them from their end-of-the-term homework, and that he provide them a gumbo (!) potluck. Yesterday, an article by my
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