Education

China’s Growing Influence on Campus 0
- Education
- August 20, 2020
The U.S. government has opened a multi-front assault on the Chinese Communist Party’s infiltration of American institutions. Chinese companies that don’t abide by American securities laws will be delisted from U.S. stock exchanges under an executive order signed by the president. Another order prohibits federal workers’ pension funds from being invested in Chinese-controlled companies. Yet
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Cancel Culture Is Undermining Learning and Harming Students Like Me 0
- Education
- August 18, 2020
In my tenth grade English class, just like many other American students, I read some of the works of the late Joseph Conrad, an unbounded explorer and captivating writer. But my class did not analyze Conrad’s books as my father or grandfather did when they were my age. Instead of discussing how his works shaped
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Schools Attempt to Keep Children in the ‘Magic Womb’0
- Education
- August 17, 2020
Many children are hitting the books again for another school year in a way they never have before. Still in a COVID coma, many schools have opted for a distance learning model, or a hybrid model combining in-person and distance instruction. Yet even as we begin the new school year, reports are still emerging of
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Parents, Educators, Doctors Join Trump in New Push to Reopen Schools 0
- Education
- August 13, 2020
Dr. Melanie McGraw Piasecki is both a pediatrician and a mother of three who wants to see kids back in school after the COVID-19 lockdown that shuttered classrooms in the spring and is on the cusp of doing so this fall across the country. “My children did not have a particularly great experience in the
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Will Coronavirus Mean the End of Private Schools?0
- Education
- August 12, 2020
As the coronavirus crisis continues, question marks swirl around the school year that is about to begin. Few schools will be returning to fulltime, in-classroom instruction straight away. Thus, parents are considering alternatives. Homeschooling is an attractive option. Some families are even teaming up to establish home-based microschools or “pandemic pods.” But where does that leave traditional private schools?
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Abolishing History From the Classroom Is What Got Us Into This Mess 0
- Education
- August 6, 2020
History’s time in the classroom has come and gone. At least, that seems to be the view of an Illinois state representative. According to NBC, Rep. La Shawn Ford of Chicago claims that the citizens of Illinois have been subjected to “miseducation” in their history curriculum, and as such, he demands “immediate action by removing current history books
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