Education

Has School Choice Become a Purple America Issue?0
- Education
- April 18, 2017
Gallup, one of the most trusted household names in national polling, recently asked Americans whether they agreed, disagreed or didn’t know enough to have an opinion about 15 of President Trump’s proposals or actions. School choice was one of the issues, and on the surface, the results weren’t all that surprising: 59 percent of Americans support providing
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How Latin is Helping Inner City Youths Strive and Succeed 0
- Education
- April 18, 2017
In the last few years, there has been a resurgent interest in making Latin a part of the school curriculum. After all, the benefits seem too good to pass up, particularly those which show that Latin boosts reading, math, and science scores. It is likely these benefits that attracted a Philadelphia inner city charter school,
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Wellesley Student Paper Defends Censorship… with Horrible Grammar 0
- Education
- April 17, 2017
Critics of political correctness allege that America’s college students are now so immersed in ideological political activism that they are not learning very much. How to write English, for example. Editors at the Wellesley College student newspaper, The Wellesley News, recently wrote an editorial defending the intolerance now sweeping the nation’s universities. Unfortunately, in their
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Why Do Schools Shut Parents Out of the Classroom?2
- Education
- April 17, 2017
When I was younger, I heard that a sign of a good music teacher was an instructor who welcomed parents to sit in on a child’s lesson. Recognizing the value of this advice, I incorporated it into my own private studio when I began teaching several years later. Sure, it was a bit awkward at
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Thomas Edison Would Have Been Given Adderall Today 1
- Education
- April 13, 2017
“The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.” – Thomas Edison In 1855, when he
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How a Campus Kangaroo Court Drove One Student to Suicide 0
- Education
- April 12, 2017
In May 2016, Thomas Klocke, a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, was accused of sexual misconduct. According to reports, the accusations stemmed from an interaction Klocke had with a gay student during class, in which Klocke allegedly used a gay slur. Klocke, who vehemently denied the accusations, was formally charged with violating
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