Education

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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Why (Most) Right-Wing Intellectuals Hate Trump 0
- Education
- December 26, 2018
More than two years into President Trump’s historic presidency, it behooves us to think more deeply about a persistent sticking point in the political life of the nation: Why do (most) right-wing intellectuals loathe him? This kind of nearly unified opposition cries out for explanation. After all, it is not simply that all left-wing
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Teacher: Stroking Egos Does Nothing for Students. Raising Expectations Does.0
- Education
- December 26, 2018
Armed with a bachelor of science in elementary education, I charged into my career as a teacher. I was immediately exposed to students at three levels of public schools: A rather wealthy district with an average IQ of 120. A classic, middle-class school. A school that is best described as a mini United Nations. In
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What the Fake History of Guns Can Teach Us 0
- Education
- December 12, 2018
In 2000, Emory University history professor Michael Bellesiles published the book Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. The central argument of the book was that the culture of American gun ownership does not date back to the colonial era and, instead, emerged in the middle of the nineteenth century when technological advances made
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