Education

Closing the Department of Education, Promoting a ‘Curriculum of Family’13
- Education, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- March 20, 2025
Rumor has it that President Trump plans to sign an executive order on March 20, 2025, dismantling the U.S. Department of Education (ED). “Formally closing the department requires an act of Congress,” NBC News reports. “But even without formally shutting it down, the Trump administration could effectively make it nearly impossible for employees to carry
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Raising Courageous Kids in an Indecent World 22
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Uncategorized
- March 19, 2025
Not long ago, President Donald Trump signed The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Surrounded by a bunch of sweet and excited young girls, the action was heralded with fanfare, proclaiming that common sense had returned to America and that the young females among us would no longer be threatened by predators in
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Why Parents of ‘Twice-Exceptional’ Children Choose Homeschooling Over Public School 13
- Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- March 19, 2025
Homeschooling has exploded in popularity in recent years, particularly since the pandemic. But researchers are still exploring why parents choose to homeschool their children. While the decision to homeschool is often associated with religion, a 2023 survey found that the two top reasons people cited as most important were a concern about the school environment, such as safety and drugs, and
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Ora et Labora: Making Work Meaningful 8
- Culture, Education, Featured, Uncategorized
- March 12, 2025
“Be always employed in something useful,” wrote young Benjamin Franklin, promoting the virtue of industriousness and discouraging the wasting of time. “Cut off all unnecessary actions.” Surely, though, he did not intend that we maintain a perpetual busy-ness just for its own sake. After all, as Henry David Thoreau pointed out, “It is not enough
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The Rise of AE – ‘Artificial Education’6
- Education, Featured, Uncategorized
- March 5, 2025
When something gets its own unique acronym, we can consider it to have arrived. Sometime during the last few years, Artificial Intelligence achieved this special status. The promise of AI includes significant economic and societal benefits, such as enhancing productivity and innovation across various sectors. AI can improve business performance through applications like predictive maintenance,
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Be a Good Parent and Take Away Your Child’s Smartphone 4
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- February 28, 2025
Actress, mother of two, and school activist Sophie Winkleman began her recent address on children at the 2025 Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference in London by describing a recent scene from a packed London bus. Standing over a young man and a young woman, both intent on their smartphones, Winkleman noticed that each was on a dating
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