Education

Early Starts in School Lead to Higher Rates of ADHD Diagnoses 0
- Education
- September 27, 2019
Parents want the best for their children, particularly when it comes to education. While many parents may feel the cultural push toward earlier schooling, some are questioning these evolving norms and delaying school enrollment or forgoing conventional schooling altogether. Intellectual Disabilities and Depression Previous findings by Harvard researchers showed increased ADHD diagnosis rates for children
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Community: The Missing Element in Modern Schools?0
- Education
- September 12, 2019
I’ll admit it. I’ve always had a secret fondness for stories about one-room schools. Why? Perhaps it’s the simpler time. Perhaps it’s the fact that they seemed to value good education and hard work. Perhaps it’s the family-like structure and community they fostered. That last element is especially missing from today’s schools, which ship busloads
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Grade Acceleration Benefits Learners and Schools. Why Is It so Rare?0
- Education
- September 9, 2019
New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio is making headlines suited for satire. A commission he assembled recently released a report recommending the elimination of gifted programs in order to reduce inequality – a remedy of Harrison Burgeron proportions. Unfortunately, as a general nationwide trend, public schools have already neglected the top students in favor of an
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Hang On to Your Prejudices – Some of Them, Anyway 0
- Education
- September 4, 2019
In his 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind, the late Allan Bloom wrote of a debate he once had with a psychology professor when he taught at Cornell University. The psychologist “said that it was his function to get rid of prejudices in his students. He knocked them down like tenpins. I began to
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The College Board Scraps Controversial ‘Adversity Score,’ but Continues Plan to Weigh College Admissions 0
- Education
- August 30, 2019
It appears that many Americans still believe that merit is the most important factor in determining who will get into our top colleges and universities. On Tuesday, the College Board announced – after receiving considerable criticism – that it will no longer pursue adding an “Adversity Score” to the SAT. In May, the organization announced that it would start ranking
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9th Grade Reading Lists: 1922 vs. Today 0
- Education
- August 30, 2019
(This story was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on September 2, 2016.) Have you ever thought that high school graduates today… well, just don’t seem to know or understand as much as they once did? According to a new research report from the Urban Institute, such a thought is not simply a result of generational
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