Education

This National School Choice Week, Let’s Celebrate Return to Founding Principles 0
- Education
- January 25, 2024
The school choice policies sweeping the nation may be among the most innovative—and promising—enacted in recent memory. Yet they also embody a return to principles first enshrined in American law nearly 400 years ago. In 1642, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony crafted the nation’s first education law, its objective was clear: Parents must educate their children. Echoing Moses’ exhortation to
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College Vaccine Mandates: Here to Stay?1
- Education, Health, Science
- January 17, 2024
It is January 2024, and Covid vaccine mandates persist at 70 of the top 800 colleges in the US, and who knows if they will ever let them go. If you are a healthcare major, nearly every clinical partner site still mandates that healthcare students take the most updated Covid vaccine (often no exemptions accepted) even
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Educational Collapse and the Definition of Truth 8
- Education, Philosophy
- January 3, 2024
It’s no secret that America’s students are struggling. The latest Nation’s Report Cards have not been flattering, with average scores in both math and reading declining over recent years. It’s also no secret that pandemic restrictions have only exacerbated the learning decline in the U.S. However, scores have been falling since before the pandemic, signaling
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A Co-op by Any Other Name …3
- Family, Education
- December 27, 2023
I was standing at the sink washing dishes and absentmindedly listening to NPR. We were in the pandemic. Most of what I heard on the radio sounded rehearsed. The same words used repeatedly, until suddenly there was something different: “learning pods.” I turned up the radio and leaned in to listen. The radio ladies were
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Will Harvard’s Head Hang On?0
- Culture, Education, Featured
- December 18, 2023
Last week, Intellectual Takeout reported on the jaw-dropping Capitol Hill testimony of MIT President Sally Kornbluth, UPenn President Liz Magill, and Harvard President Claudine Gay. In turn, each leader affirmed—bizarrely—that calls for genocide against Jews did not violate their schools’ harassment policies unless those calls were severe, directed at individuals, or crossed over into conduct.
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Atheism and Antisemitism at America’s Universities 0
- Culture, Education
- December 18, 2023
Ryan Burge is a data analyst who synthesizes information about religion and politics in the United States. He publishes his findings and observations regularly on Substack. Last week, he wrote an article titled “How Weird is The Religious Composition of Harvard’s Student Body?” In it, he examines the results of a poll Harvard conducted of
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