Education

Survey: Majority of Parents Believe Online Learning Is Going Well 0
- Education
- May 13, 2020
A teacher friend of mine was secretly pleased when she heard that schools were going to finish out the year with online classes. Curious, I asked for her reasoning. The answer was simple: she has a mute button while teaching online. Because of that mute button, this teacher doesn’t have to spend time dealing with
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Restoring Justice to Sexual Assault Complaints on Campus 0
- Education
- May 12, 2020
On May 6, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos unveiled new Title IX regulations concerning sexual harassment and sexual assault on campus. Despite outraged cries of “turning back the clock” that echo across both sides of the Atlantic, the 2,033-page code reasserts the moral, ethical and legal norms that formed the basis of Western society. The
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Coronavirus Has Liberated Students From College Shackles 0
- Education
- May 5, 2020
Each year, nearly three million high school seniors graduate and then go straight on to college. I suspect many of them are just as clueless as I was when I graduated high school. Most just go to college because that is what they have been told to do. This coronavirus has turned all that on
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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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