Education

What Happened to American Civics?1
- Education, History, MomThink
- August 12, 2024
My son’s school assigned a civics project for summer vacation. The project’s scope is expansive and spans from explaining the history and functions of the three branches of government to creating a flip book of landmark Supreme Court cases like Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education. One of the tasks is a minor level of
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Back to School, and Time to Foster Creativity 0
- Education, MomThink
- August 9, 2024
Back-to-school season is here, and with the recent examples of race-based classroom activities and sexually charged curriculum in schools nationwide, parents are right to wonder what their students will be taught this fall. A recent commentary by an education reporter about his own children revealed that last year his sixth grader had no homework, spelling tests, handwriting
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Social-Emotional Learning Is Hurting Students 1
- Education, MomThink
- August 7, 2024
Social-emotional learning (SEL) has been in vogue in education circles for decades. Following its precepts, teachers, counselors, and administrators encourage students to look inward and focus on their feelings. The result? A generation of young people who can’t stop thinking about their emotions, leaving them incredibly fragile. But that’s not what many of the experts
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How to Diversify Your Child’s Potential 0
- Education, Family, MomThink
- August 6, 2024
Investors are always told to “diversify” their portfolios. Don’t put all your money in stocks — what if the market plunges? But don’t put all your money in bonds — you’ll miss the market rallies. And for God’s sake, don’t put all your money in one company. Or, to put it an older way: Don’t
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Why Do People Mostly Stop Learning After College?5
- Education
- August 5, 2024
Why is it that, upon finishing college and entering the workforce, the vast majority of people seem to just stop learning? Is education a period of your life to be gotten over with, a burden that, once borne, is to be set aside for better things? This certainly seems to be the way we think
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Chronic Absenteeism Is a Problem, But Most Proposed Solutions Miss the Point 1
- Culture, Education, MomThink
- August 1, 2024
Two weeks ago, three unlikely bedfellows joined forces to announce their intention to cut K-12 chronic absenteeism in half by 2029. The right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, the left-leaning Education Trust, and the nonprofit organization Attendance Works revealed their plan in Washington, DC. The coalition hopes to combat chronic absenteeism, defined as students missing 10 percent or more
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