Education

The Intellectual Purpose of Education: Why ‘Impractical’ Subjects Are Still Worth Learning 1
- Education
- October 4, 2023
It’s a complaint I’ve heard often, and (I’ll confess) occasionally spoken myself: “What use is learning math? It’s not like it’s going to help me in life!” In eighth grade geometry, the complaints seemed legitimate. Why was I calculating the angles of triangle XYZ? I didn’t know what career I was going to pursue, but—at
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Canadian School Book Ban: High School Removes All Pre-2008 Books 3
- Culture, Education, Literature
- October 2, 2023
Book banning has become a serious topic of debate throughout the United States and Canada over the past few years, with many left-leaning individuals and organizations calling foul against conservatives who do not believe children should be reading sexually explicit material in the classroom. And while this debate will probably not be resolved anytime soon,
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Did Lockdowns Finish Off Public Schooling?2
- Family, Education
- September 28, 2023
We moved to a good school district. The area was growing. Built for families like ours, all of the public schools in the area received “A” or “8/10” ratings. There were two very expensive and very fancy private schools in the area. It was an idyllic place to raise children. In retrospect, we had a
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$Incoming College Students Unable To Do Basic Math After Pandemic$
Incoming College Students Unable To Do Basic Math After Pandemic 1
- Education
- September 26, 2023
Incoming students are often unable to do basic math at colleges across America. Many of them failed to learn the basics during COVID-19 lockdowns or even forgot some of what they previously learned. Math professors say freshmen cannot do basic things such as subtracting a positive number from a negative number or adding two fractions,
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School Wars: A Battle Plan for Parents 0
- Education, Culture, Family
- September 25, 2023
Yellow buses are rolling again across the countryside, which means the culture wars in our schools are cranking up as well. Key to understanding these conflicts is this question: Who is primarily responsible for a child’s education and welfare, the state or the parents? California continues to lead the nation in attacking parental rights while
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Choosing the Best Education at Risk of Arrest 0
- Education
- September 22, 2023
If you’re like most parents, you want the best for your children, especially when it comes to education. But to what lengths would you go to achieve that best? Would you be willing to risk arrest by the government in order to choose the best education for your child? That’s the situation the Romeike family
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