Education

Let’s Apply Elon’s Bullet Point List to Homemakers So We Can Finally Appreciate Their True Worth 8
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, MomThink, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- February 26, 2025
A friend of mine recently quit her corporate job to stay home with her two young children. Although the decision was one she’d long wanted to make, it wasn’t necessarily easy, for it meant saying goodbye to co-workers and a company she enjoyed, as well as a reduction in the family budget. It also meant
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Homestyle History: Bringing the Past Alive for Kids 2
- Education, Family, Featured, History, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- February 21, 2025
More and more Americans are learning less and less about the history of their own country. The latest results from “The Nation’s Report Card” revealed that eighth-grade scores in American history continued to tumble, with fully 40% of these young people failing to meet even basic level standards. A 2024 survey of college students demonstrated equally dismal results, finding
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Former Teacher Explains 7 Signs of an Educated Person 19
- Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- February 19, 2025
Is your child getting a good education? If asked that question, many would likely reply – somewhat indignantly even – “He goes to a good school. He gets good grades. Of course he’s well educated!” But well-educated is not the same as well-schooled. And sadly, most of what we call education today is actually schooling,
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The Women Taking an Alternative Path in the Nationwide Library Fights 2
- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature
- February 17, 2025
Let’s begin, as so many good things begin, with the dream. For years, conservative political activist, wife, and mother Connie Marshner of Front Royal, Va., dreamed of opening a private library, one aimed particularly at children. “I had collected books forever, especially children’s books, because I believe so strongly in beauty and beautiful books,” Marshner
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Getting Serious About America’s Literacy Time Bomb 2
- Education, Featured, History, Uncategorized
- February 12, 2025
The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as the Nation’s Report Card, came out in January, and student reading scores slipped once again. About 40% of fourth-graders and 33% of eighth-graders scored below the test’s basic level. Although states like Alabama provided bright spots in this grim picture with improvement in reading and
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Betting on Homeschooling and Microschooling 7
- Culture, Education, Featured, MomThink
- December 27, 2024
I have spent the past thirty-five years creating small, highly-personalized schools where students flourish. I have, if you will, bet my life on the value of these schools—microschools before they became a thing. Over the course of that time, I’ve seen hundreds of children who were anxious, depressed—sometimes even suicidal—become happy and well within weeks
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