Education

How Regulations Destroy Education 1
- Education, MomThink
- October 10, 2024
Amanda Lucas tried to do everything right. A teacher in both public charter and private schools for about 10 years, Lucas felt the tug toward entrepreneurship. She wanted to open her own school, one that would focus on individualized curriculum in an intentionally small learning environment for elementary and middle school-age students. All of them
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Restrictive Schooling Imperils Our Children 0
- Education, MomThink
- October 1, 2024
Last week, my sons’ school went into lockdown. It wasn’t a drill. There was a real threat. Two high school-aged students, a boy and a girl, were discussing an alleged fight on social media when one of them wrote, “I’m shooting up the school at 9.” Thankfully, someone reported this information to the school, and the
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I Debated Pro-Choice Students at My Liberal College. Here’s Why It Gave Me Hope.8
- Culture, Education, Featured
- September 27, 2024
My hands were shaking as I took up my microphone. After a week of near-sleepless nights thanks to the stress of college classes, extracurriculars, and researching the ubiquitous abortion question, I was tired. Worse than that, I was nervous to speak in front of a room filled with my peers about my (counter-cultural) views on
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On Conquering White Whales: Stemming the Tide of Cultural Ignorance 6
- Education, Featured, MomThink
- September 24, 2024
Once upon a time, Moby Dick was required reading for American high schoolers. It is, after all, arguably, one of the greatest American novels ever penned. Sadly, most students today will never read Moby Dick, and sadder still, neither have, nor will, their teachers. There is something uniquely sublime about the great beast of the
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Not Every Child Needs a Diagnosis (And What To Do Instead)4
- Education, MomThink
- September 20, 2024
I recently had the opportunity to attend a homeschool resource fair at a small local school for the arts in my hometown. Every classroom and corridor was filled with tables covered in information about homeschool co-ops, clubs, private classes and teachers. Everything from ballet to robotics, art, woodworking, and every conceivable academic approach were represented
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Finding Relief for the Anxious Generation in Schools and Beyond 2
- Education, Culture, Featured, MomThink
- September 17, 2024
As a new school year begins, many students have returned to a drastic shift in phone policies. A growing number of school districts—and even state legislatures—have introduced phone-free policies and are seeing kids come alive again. This shift is due at least in part to Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation, which makes a
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