Education

Reopening Schools: What Betsy DeVos Gets Wrong and Homeschoolers Get Right 0
- Education
- July 16, 2020
While the pandemic itself is generating much uncertainty, the battle over back-to-school is causing downright whiplash. Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended that schools work to reopen for in-person learning this fall. The physician group stated that it “strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with
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Six Everyday Ways to Raise Intellectually Curious Children 0
- Education
- July 14, 2020
Homeschooling is now mainstream. If recent reports are any indication, it isn’t going to fade into the background anytime soon. Having homeschooling forced upon them for several months, many parents have found they love it, while others find they can’t wait for schools to relieve them in caring for their children for six or more hours
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If You Want Diversity, Make Homeschooling Permanent 0
- Education
- July 9, 2020
Suddenly all of America is homeschooling. I could never have imagined it. The whole homeschooling community now “looks like America.” What most people fail to understand, however, is that the homeschooling community always did. On a beautiful June morning when my one and only child graduated from high school, I was struck yet again by
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Back to School? ‘No Thanks’ Say Millions of New Homeschoolers 0
- Education
- July 8, 2020
Next month marks the beginning of the 2020/2021 academic year in several U.S. states, and pressure is mounting to reopen schools even as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Florida, for example, is now considered the nation’s No. 1 hot spot for the virus; yet on Monday, the state’s education commissioner issued an executive order mandating that
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Something Beautiful: The Path of Success to Lifelong Learning 0
- Education
- July 6, 2020
Suppose you’re a successful engineer who now wishes he had taken more English literature courses in college. Suppose you’re a stay at home mother of four, and your sixteen-year-old daughter has taken an interest in classical music, a subject as foreign to you as Portuguese. Suppose you’re a bright homeschooling teen who wants to learn
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Unbiased Research on Race Becoming Taboo in Academia 0
- Education
- July 2, 2020
It is now dangerous for an academic to conduct or even discuss research that shows an absence of racial bias in the criminal justice system. An Asian-American college official was forced to resign his position after discussing such research, as The College Fix reports in the article, “Scholar forced to resign over study that found
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