Education

Don’t Believe Those Who Say Liberal Arts Degrees Aren’t Worth It 0
- Education
- May 11, 2017
Zachary First, Managing Director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, opines at PayScale.com on just how misguided is the question: “Can we, in economic terms, justify investing in a degree in the humanities?” In an article titled, “When the Humanities are Worth It,” First gives an example of a degree that, ten years ago, no
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College Majors that Report the Highest Underemployment 0
- Education
- May 9, 2017
Forbes recently ran an interesting article that analyzed college degree programs and underemployment. The article was based on a survey released by PayScale, which collected data from nearly one million workers between March 2014 and March 2016. Here are the 12 majors that reported the highest rates of underemployment (a situation in which someone is
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Public Schools Shouldn’t Be Teaching ‘Values’0
- Education
- May 8, 2017
America’s public schools are getting worse, and part of the reason why is that they have taken on too much responsibility. This point was made by the famous historian Jacques Barzun in his preface to his 1983 book Teacher in America: “There [in public schools], instead of initiatives to develop native intelligence and give it
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MIT Is Making Kid-Friendly Communist Propaganda 0
- Education
- May 5, 2017
In order to make the deadliest ideology of the 20th century palatable to young Americans, “Communism for Kids” is coming to a bookstore near you. This newly released book from MIT Press “proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism.” The death toll from communist regimes
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Is NPR Pushing Propaganda about the Benefits of Preschool?0
- Education
- May 4, 2017
The other day, NPR published an article on the benefits of Pre-K education. Highlighting a recent consensus statement on preschool released by The Brookings Institute, the article went bonkers on social media, presumably because of the following announcement: “Some of the nation’s top researchers who’ve spent their careers studying early childhood education recently got together
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Arizona Lawmaker Urges End to Compulsory Schooling 0
- Education
- May 4, 2017
Most Americans agree that an educated citizenry is a priority for a thriving democracy. In fact, the first compulsory education statute was passed in Massachusetts Bay Colony not long after the Pilgrims arrived. In 1642, that first compulsory education law prioritized childhood literacy, but it placed the responsibility on parents to educate their children. It
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