Education

This 1890 Australian Homework Book Puts Today’s Students to Shame 0
- Education
- April 21, 2017
It’s not often that we get a glimpse of what schoolwork was like around the turn of the 20th century. But every once in a while, someone unearths a record which reveals just how rigorous education used to be. Such was the case in Australia when Marcia Maybury discovered a homework book compiled by her
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College Libraries are Purging Book Collections. Are They Discarding Thought as Well?0
- Education
- April 20, 2017
While on a local university campus last fall, I decided to swing through the library. Near the entrance was a cart loaded with books waiting to be discarded. I made a beeline for it and soon left with an armload of books. Their loss was my gain. Unfortunately, that library isn’t the only one purging
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Tuition-Free College isn’t Free—But it Does Have Some of the Makings of a Pyramid Scheme 0
- Education
- April 18, 2017
Proposals to make public university and college attendance tuition free were floated by Democratic candidates during the 2016 presidential election primaries. Bernie Sanders was and still is one of its most ardent supporters. Hilary Clinton advocated it during the general election. For many Republicans—such as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and President Donald Trump—it is
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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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