Education

Closed Schools Ignore Low COVID-19 Rates, Needs of Families 0
- Education
- October 22, 2020
At what would normally be the end of the first academic quarter for most K-12 schools, millions of students still have not set foot in a classroom. Many haven’t done so since March. Evidence continues to mount that COVID-19 affects children the least, and ad hoc school district e-learning platforms, hastily assembled in the spring,
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Rethinking Education: Time to Make Some Changes 2
- Education
- October 22, 2020
Recently I visited my daughter, her husband, and the grandkids in rural Pennsylvania, where they live in a large 140-year-old house. A short walk away is Gregory the Great Academy, grades 9-12, where my son-in-law Mike works and where my oldest grandson is a student. The 60-some boys in the school receive a classical education
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Four Reasons Literature Needs to Be Saved From Its Teachers 0
- Education
- October 20, 2020
“We read a lot of literature in high school,” a first-year student explained to me. “And that’s why I don’t like it.” When I asked her what she had read and how it had been taught, she answered: “‘Huckleberry Finn.’ It shows that slavery is wrong.” If you didn’t know that already, I thought, you
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Minneapolis Public Schools Spend $26K Per Student Annually 0
- Education
- October 16, 2020
Everyone knows that COVID has disrupted the education system like nothing else in recent memory. But as time goes on it appears that this may only be the tip of the iceberg. A recent MPR news report suggests that for Minnesota public schools, declining enrollment is worse than was ever imagined several months ago. Citing
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Breaking Free From the Epidemic of Listless School Children 0
- Education
- October 15, 2020
My neighbors, intrepidly homeschooling since the arrival of COVID, came to my door the other day and dropped off a craft they made as part of their studies on a certain mammal. Given the subject of the craft, it was clear they were exploring things their children were interested in, asking questions about, and seeking
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Reading for Rest in a Chaotic World 1
- Education
- October 9, 2020
“Annie, you know more about children’s literature than anyone I’ve ever known,” a friend remarked to me a while back. Rolling my eyes, I laughingly denied this claim. “Nonsense!” I replied, “I know someone who is far more knowledgeable about children’s literature than I am!” I was talking about a woman whom I will call
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