Education

The COVID-19 Edition of ‘Race to the Top’0
- Education
- April 28, 2020
Remember the Common Core, the national curriculum standards that sparked a conflagration over who should control what every public school child in America would learn? If nothing else, you might recall a little Core comedy, though in many places the Core is still with us in various forms. What you might not recall is how
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Attacks on Homeschooling Suggest Nervous Government Schools 0
- Education
- April 27, 2020
It’s funny how homeschooling – that once-upon-a-time fringe movement of education – has now become the norm. Everyone’s doing it out of sheer necessity. For some, it’s going great! What was at first a stressful and uncertain task is now becoming routine. In fact, a recent poll conducted by EdChoice found that over half of
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Stop the Hysteria on COVID-19 Learning Loss 0
- Education
- April 8, 2020
More than one billion students around the world are currently missing school due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several US states have already canceled school for the remainder of the academic year, turning to online learning when possible, and other states are likely to extend their school closures soon. Some educationists panic about learning loss while
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School’s Out and It’s Time to Revamp Education 0
- Education
- April 6, 2020
This past weekend, I watched the original version of Red Dawn, the movie about a joint Soviet, Cuban, and Nicaraguan invasion of the United States. A group of teenagers escape to the mountains and resist these invaders. After their first skirmish in which they kill three Russian soldiers, a girl seated by the fire says, “Things
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COVID-19 Shut Down the SAT and ACT, but Not the Classic Learning Test 0
- Education
- March 31, 2020
COVID-19 has disrupted student life across the nation, closing schools and leading to major questions about what’s in store for high school juniors and seniors as they take their next steps toward college. The virus canceled many college placement exams that had been slated over the next few months. The ACT has postponed its April
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School’s Out Forever?0
- Education
- March 30, 2020
With just about every public school in the country closed at this time, the only way for kids to get an education is at home. Many see this as nothing less than tragic. Writing in Education Week, Stephen Sawchuk claims that schools are an “absolute necessity for the functioning of civic culture, and even more
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