Education

High School Football or Day Care?3
- Education, Family
- December 4, 2023
Football season is almost over, but for the past couple months, middle school students who attended high school games in several Oklahoma cities have had to sit with their parents at all times. At some schools, even if they go to the bathroom, they must be accompanied by an adult. The Oklahoma schools’ rules were
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Teaching Your Child to Read: The Gateway to All Learning 1
- Family, Education, Featured, Literature
- December 1, 2023
When my husband and I decided we were going to homeschool, we puzzled over what might be his contribution. Our division of labor as a married couple included me as a stay-at-home mom and him as the primary breadwinner. Nevertheless, we wanted to find a way for him to be involved in the educational aspects
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How Can We Stop Serving Students So Poorly?1
- Education, Economics
- November 21, 2023
In 1942, there were 108,579 public school districts in the United States. By the 2020-21 school year, there were only 13,187. That massive consolidation of school districts was propelled by the belief that economies of scale created by larger school districts would lower costs and serve students better. Those presumed efficiencies have not, however, been demonstrated in practice.
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A Call to Battle: Liz Wheeler’s ‘Hide Your Children’1
- Education, Family
- November 20, 2023
When my wife and I were raising and homeschooling our four children, we faced certain cultural dilemmas just like other parents we knew. Should we let our kids read the Harry Potter books? (Affirmative on that one.) What movies or television shows should we allow them to watch? What sort of friends were they making?
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Kirk Cameron Promotes New Kids Book Publisher to Rival Woke Scholastic 0
- Culture, Education
- November 15, 2023
I remember Scholastic book fairs well. I recall the excitement, as a child, of flipping through their bright catalogues and the intoxicating smell of so many new books neatly laid out on tables in the school library. With its unique book fair business model, it is no wonder Scholastic grew to become “the world’s largest
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As Education Decentralizes, Those Who Like Control Are Nervous 5
- Education
- November 10, 2023
As more parents gain the opportunity to abandon a compulsory schooling assignment for other options, including homeschooling and microschooling, it’s no surprise that those who favor top-down control of education feel anxious about this bottom-up education transformation. This nervousness is occurring on both ends of the political spectrum. On the political left, The Washington Post
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