Education

College Admission Scandal Grew out of a System That Was Ripe for Corruption 0
- Education
- March 13, 2019
As part of the “Operation Varsity Blues” case that federal prosecutors announced March 12, dozens of people – including Hollywood actresses and wealthy businessmen – stand accused of having bought their children’s way into elite colleges and universities. As a researcher who has studied how young athletes get admitted to college, I don’t see a
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Lawmakers Want to Give Voting Rights to Teens They Treat Like Toddlers with Compulsory Schooling Law 0
- Education
- March 13, 2019
Newly-elected US Rep. Ayanna Pressley caused a stir this month when she filed an amendment to lower the legal federal voting age from 18 to 16. While Pressley’s amendment failed to pass, the action brought attention to the place of teenagers in society. Regardless of how we may feel about the role of the voter,
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US Schools Are Leaving Students Ill-Equipped to Compete with Artificial Intelligence 0
- Education
- February 20, 2019
We have long known that the robots were coming, but now that they are here, the mismatch between our modern education system and the technology-fueled workplace is glaringly apparent. As robots expertly perform routine tasks and increasingly assume broader workforce responsibilities, we must ask ourselves an important question: What is our key human differentiator? The
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Booker T. Washington’s Racial Compromise?1
- Education
- February 13, 2019
I first read Up from Slavery ten years ago and was quickly surprised that it wasn’t required reading for every educator, that is, until I read the critics. In his autobiography, Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) leaves us an equal bounty of moral wisdom and caution that all began with his dream to learn. Education and merit are
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Why Johnny Still Can’t Read 1
- Education
- February 1, 2019
In 1955, prompted by the reading problems experience by the child of a friend, Rudolf Flesch wrote the book Why Johnny Can’t Read. The book became a huge bestseller and is still in print today. Flesch realized that the reason many children were not learning to read was because of method of reading instruction
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What I’ve Learned As A Life-Long Homeschooler 0
- Education
- January 25, 2019
Many people still consider “homeschooling” to be a religious farmstead cult instead of a legitimate form of education. Yet on average, homeschoolers are far out-performing their publicly-educated peers in almost every subject. According to the Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), In 1990, the National Home Education Research Institute issued a report entitled “A Nationwide Study
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