Education

How Nat Turner’s Failed Revolt Changed the Debate on Slavery 0
- Education
- May 23, 2018
On August 22, 1831, a group of slaves began a revolt in the county of Southampton, Virginia, that would go down in history as the largest uprising against the Peculiar Institution in nineteenth-century America. The rebellion was led by Nat Turner, a slave from Southampton, one of the few southern counties where black Americans were
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Does It Pay to Graduate from an ‘Elite’ University? Not as Much as You’d Think 0
- Education
- May 11, 2018
As the deadline for applications for mid-year admission to university approaches, prospective students face two important choices: what to study, and at which university. If past experience is any guide, places at the Group of Eight (Go8) universities will be in high demand. In 2017, the Go8 universities attracted the largest share of undergraduate applications
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How a 1934 New York Graduation Exam Shows How Far Academic Standards Have Fallen 0
- Education
- May 10, 2018
Today’s education system has a myriad of advantages that earlier generations never would have dreamed about. Smartboards. Tablets. Advanced science labs. Massive libraries. These perks are wonderful and suggest that our schools are giving children a much better education than they would have had at an earlier time. But what if all these advancements are
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Chesterton: Dogma is Inescapable in Education 0
- Education
- May 10, 2018
As you might imagine, the section of G. K. Chesterton’s What’s Wrong with the World that is devoted to the “mistake about the child” has something to do with the education of the child. Actually, he thought that more than one mistake was being made, but all mistakes were traceable to any aspect of education
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Another Blue State Poised to Mandate LGBTQ Education for Elementary School Students 0
- Education
- May 9, 2018
In 2011, California’s state legislature passed the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act. The law, the first of its kind in the U.S., required, among other things, that schools educate children on the contributions of LGBTQ individuals. By 2016, California’s state education board had approved 10 LGBTQ-inclusive history texts for children in kindergarten
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Learning Greek and Latin Will Be Key to Renewing the West 1
- Education
- May 9, 2018
Last week, various headlines proclaimed that there’s a “cut-off age” of 17 or 18 if you want to learn a new language. The headlines were generated by a new study published by MIT researchers, and based on analysis of a grammar quiz they gave to 670,000 people. The researchers found that people “remain very skilled at
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