Education

‘Micro’ K-12 Schools Offer Big Solutions for Students 0
- Education
- February 6, 2024
New research estimates that some students’ grades will never catch back up after falling during the pandemic. Recently, some in the mainstream media worried that the federal taxpayer money that lawmakers sent to K-12 schools during COVID-19 may not be enough to help schools turn things around. But public schools—also known as “assigned” schools—had money before the pandemic, and
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Safetyism Eclipses Common Sense 0
- Family, Education
- February 2, 2024
School’s out on April 8 for many kids in the U.S. and Canada. On that date, a full solar eclipse will be visible from Texas to Ontario, and “There are risks associated with viewing a solar eclipse,” several Toronto-area school boards announced. Those schools moved their May 17 kid-free professional development day to April 8
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Back in the Saddle Again: Some Reflections on Schools and Students 0
- Education, Featured
- February 2, 2024
In late December, I agreed to teach a Latin class in a small, private Catholic school here in Front Royal, Virginia. The headmistress had approached me several times in years past about coming back to the classroom, but always, I had refused, in large part because of my already hectic schedule. This time was different.
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Battles We Can Win: Family, Morality, Education 2
- Family, Culture, Education, Featured
- January 30, 2024
In “Burke on Our Crisis of Character,” which appeared in the December 2023 issue of Chronicles, Bruce Frohnen notes, “The American Way was real, rooted in families whose rights trumped the demands of the state because families were more natural and fundamental than the state.” The following month in the same magazine, Stephen Baskerville reviews
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Dual Enrollment: A Homeschool Resource 6
- Education, Featured
- January 25, 2024
This year marks the completion of high school for two of my children. Navigating the high school years has been both exciting and challenging. By the time our children had reached high school age, two things were apparent. First, homeschooling had allowed my kids to find and pursue their special interests—ones that had future career
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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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