Education

The Strangest Thing About ‘Stranger Things’2
- Education, Culture, Entertainment, Family
- August 5, 2022
If you watch Stranger Things with your kids, there’s a good chance they spend some of the time crying. Not because the monsters are so scary, but because the kids are so free. It’s like monkeys at the zoo watching a Jane Goodall documentary. In pretty much every episode, Will, Max, Dustin, Lucas, El, and
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Four Elements of a Good History Curriculum 5
- Education, Culture, History, Politics, Western Civilization
- August 4, 2022
Protesting parents showing up at school-board meetings is one of the new scenes in our cultural landscape in recent months. COVID policies and gender propaganda are big on the list of things parents oppose, but the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) is another issue that raises their hackles. CRT disturbs many parents because it
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Taking Poetry to Heart Is a Lifetime Gift 2
- Education, Culture, Literature
- August 3, 2022
In the spring of 2014, I served as prompter for a local homeschool poetry fest in Asheville, North Carolina. From pre-K students to high school seniors, students marched onto stage and recited verse to an audience composed of family and friends. The little ones trebled out nursery rhymes, middle-schoolers delivered impressive reams of rhymes—Shel Silverstein’s
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New York Times Goes to War Against Parents 4
- Science, Education, Family, Politics
- August 3, 2022
Amid the New York Times’ ongoing bewilderment at anyone opposed to the wholesale reorganization of Western civilization around prevention of a single respiratory virus, Sheera Frenkel has penned what may be the publication’s most embarrassing article to date: A full-on hit piece against parents whose politics changed during COVID out of antipathy to school closures
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Family, Not Preschool, Is the Secret to Good Education 9
- Education, Family
- August 2, 2022
“I was so worried my son wouldn’t pass his kindergarten entrance exam,” one of my friends recently told me, noting that he hadn’t attended preschool. “That is my pet peeve!” another friend sputtered at the mention of preschool. She had noticed that many schools today want to make sure kids know their letters before entering
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Word Salads No More 5
- Education, Culture, Western Civilization
- July 29, 2022
Church was crowded, and I ended up, as I often do, sitting near the back. Just as Mass began, I glanced over my shoulder, as I also often do, to see whether some elderly person or pregnant mom might need a seat. (Saint John’s is jammed full of young families and children.) I spend a
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