Education

Is Your Vocabulary Worse Than Your Ancestors’?6
- Culture, Education, Featured
- June 24, 2024
“Are Americans more intelligent than a few decades ago, or less intelligent?” Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell, and Ryne A. Sherman asked this question in their 2019 paper, “Declines in Vocabulary Among American Adults Within Levels of Educational Attainment, 1974–2016.” To answer one angle of this inquiry, they examined American’s vocabulary over the last
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I Was Homeschooled and Became a School Teacher. Here Are Honest Pros and Cons of Learning at Home.2
- Education, Featured, MomThink
- June 21, 2024
It’s true. Sometimes homeschoolers do school in their pajamas. But that wasn’t the norm in my home when I was growing up. Generally, my mother kept us to a set schedule. Piano practice was at 8:15 sharp. Math class started at 9:00. The other subjects fell into place around that. Often, we finished our work
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Is Social Justice Ideology Bad for You?5
- Culture, Education, Featured, Politics
- June 19, 2024
In their universally acclaimed 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff show that the youth mental health crisis has its origins in bad thinking on school campuses. For example, schools and universities often encourage students to see life as a struggle between good and bad people. As a result,
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How to Fix American Education: The Parallel Education System 3
- Education, Featured, History, MomThink
- June 10, 2024
Millions of Americans have woken up to the fact that their education system is rotten to the core. As elite universities are engulfed by antisemitic riots, their veil of prestige has been torn to shreds. It is by now clear to many that, in the words of Christopher Rufo, the radical left has conquered everything.
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Denied a Diploma for Calling Jesus Christ ‘The Way’?8
- Culture, Education, Featured, Religion
- June 5, 2024
Meet Micah Price, the high school senior from Campbell County, Kentucky, who late last month was almost denied his diploma for giving Jesus Christ a shout-out during an off-script commencement speech. Footage of Micah’s speech began circulating on social media last week. “Class, before another word leaves my mouth, I must give the honor, the
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Homeschoolers Don’t Need Government Regulation 2
- Education, MomThink
- June 3, 2024
Since 2020, the number of families participating in homeschooling has increased significantly, and with it, discussions about regulations. Currently, regulations of homeschoolers are a state-by-state phenomenon, with Pennsylvania and New York among the states with the most regulations and Missouri, Texas, and Oklahoma with the least. Examples of regulations include requiring parents to submit a letter
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