Education

Teacher Licensure Laws Are Keeping Some of America’s Top Educators Out of Schools 0
- Education
- May 18, 2017
My homeschooled children take weekly math classes with a gifted teacher who has been teaching math to kids for more than 30 years from her cozy city home. After receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she decided that offering math tutoring and enrichment classes would enable her
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The President Is Not the Commander in Chief of the United States, Nor Its CEO 0
- Education
- May 17, 2017
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki R. Haley, told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” yesterday that “the president is the CEO of the country,” and thus “he can hire and fire whoever he wants. That’s his right.” Leaving aside the question of whether the president can fire everyone in the federal government, she is wrong on
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Barbara Oakley Explains One Huge Flaw in U.S. Education 0
- Education
- May 17, 2017
What does an expert in learning think about how to learn math (and other things for that matter)? Barbara Oakley is the author of A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra) and Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential; she is also a distinguished
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Would You Have Worn the Yellow Star?0
- Education
- May 15, 2017
Recently Daniel Lattier wrote about an elementary school in Edina, Minnesota, where public school children “are being trained to see the world through the lens of race.” Robert Jones, writing in The New York Times, warns that our distinctly American identity is in danger of being lost. Jones is not talking about the loss of
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How One Mother Sends Her Kids to College at Age 11 0
- Education
- May 12, 2017
By now, you may have heard of Carson and Cannan Huey-You. The two brothers hail from Texas and are making news this graduation season as one is graduating from Texas Christian University with a degree in physics, while the other is graduating from a local Christian high school. Their respective graduations are no big deal
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Today’s Schools Are Producing ‘Hollow Men’0
- Education
- May 12, 2017
One of the most heinous crimes against humanity that modernity has perpetrated is its war on the humanities. And let’s not forget that the humanities are thus called because they teach us about our own humanity. A failure to appreciate the humanities must inevitably lead to the dehumanizing of culture and a disastrous loss of
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