Education

Why Johnny Still Can’t Read 1
- Education
- February 1, 2019
In 1955, prompted by the reading problems experience by the child of a friend, Rudolf Flesch wrote the book Why Johnny Can’t Read. The book became a huge bestseller and is still in print today. Flesch realized that the reason many children were not learning to read was because of method of reading instruction
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What I’ve Learned As A Life-Long Homeschooler 0
- Education
- January 25, 2019
Many people still consider “homeschooling” to be a religious farmstead cult instead of a legitimate form of education. Yet on average, homeschoolers are far out-performing their publicly-educated peers in almost every subject. According to the Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), In 1990, the National Home Education Research Institute issued a report entitled “A Nationwide Study
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6 Benefits of Garden-Based Learning 0
- Education
- January 17, 2019
If you have children or work with children, then you probably have noticed that hands-on experiences help them make connections to the lessons they are learning. This is especially true when the lesson involves something you enjoy or have made a hobby out of, such as gardening. Hands-on learning experiences surround us if we take
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Here’s What Happens when the Gender-Gap Index Is Adjusted for Bias 0
- Education
- January 15, 2019
The apparently neutral phrase, “gender inequality,” is not neutrally understood in our society. It normally conjures up women’s lower numbers in male-dominated corporate directorships and STEM professorships or other high-status domains that are in fact accessible only to a sliver of the male population, never mind the narrower female sliver. Social scientists allegedly strive for
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How are Humans Different Than Animals? Don’t Bother Asking a Scientist.1
- Education
- January 15, 2019
When the question of how human beings are different from other animals comes up, scientists begin to display a disturbing handicap in answering it. The theory of evolution, whatever else might be said about it, seems to constrain their answers to ones of mere differences of degree. Humans, they say, are more this way or
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School Security Is Now a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry. Is There a Better Way to Protect Children?0
- Education
- January 7, 2019
U.S. taxpayers spend nearly $700 billion each year on K-12 public schooling and that eye-popping sum shows no sign of slowing. In fact, as more non-academic programs get adopted in schools across the country, the price-tag for mass schooling continues to swell even as achievement lags. One ballooning school expenditure is the vast amount
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