Education

Why Humans Increasingly Are Unaware of Their Ignorance (And Why it’s a Big Problem)1
- Education
- April 27, 2018
“Has there ever been a time in the world’s history when people were more sure of their opinions?” asks Jim Ferrell of the Arbinger Insitute. Ferrell observes, “We become set in our opinions precisely because we have lost sight of the fact that they are merely opinions…our culture is suffering from what one might call
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How Colleges Are Ripping Off a Generation of Ill-Prepared Students 0
- Education
- April 25, 2018
Earlier this month, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka the nation’s “report card,” was released. It’s not a pretty story. Only 37 percent of 12th-graders tested proficient or better in reading, and only 25 percent did so in math. Among black students, only 17 percent tested proficient or better in reading, and just
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Whistleblower: There Is No Faculty Accountability in Universities 0
- Education
- April 24, 2018
I became interested in academic accountability within the university because I had no choice: the lack of accountability I experienced at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington obligated me to act. I had become embroiled in a situation where I was morally bound to report wrongdoing. But I had no idea that being a
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Duke Divinity State of the School Address Interrupted by Rapping LGBTQ Students Who Issue 15 Demands: ‘I am Somebody, and I Won’t Be Stopped by Nobody’0
- Education
- April 23, 2018
The chickens have come home to roost at Duke’s Divinity School. Protesting students claim the school is insufficiently diverse. More needs to be done, they say, to combat racism, transphobia, homophobia, and associated evils. All this despite a campaign by the administration to achieve these very aims in the course of which a distinguished faculty
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Homeschooling Freedoms Are Under Threat. Will Parents Defend Them?0
- Education
- April 17, 2018
Homeschoolers today have it easy. Many of us were in diapers when, in 1977, educator John Holt created Growing Without Schooling, the first newsletter to connect and encourage homeschooling families. Holt and other social reformers provided the support and facilitated the networks that would ultimately lead to homeschooling becoming legally recognized in all U.S. states
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Seven Reasons People No Longer Want to be Teachers 0
- Education
- April 16, 2018
The oldest profession – teaching – is no longer attractive. The Queensland Deans of Education revealed there have been alarming drops in first preference applications for this year’s teacher preparation courses. Queensland has experienced an overall 26 percent drop. Most alarmingly, UQ reported a 44 percent plunge. QUT saw a 19 percent drop. These figures
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