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In With Teacher Apprenticeships, Out With Colleges of Education 0
- Education, MomThink
- August 23, 2024
Two persistent problems beset American schools. First, teachers must leave the classroom and become administrators or counselors to earn above the standard teacher salary. Second, colleges of education can’t prepare new teachers nearly as well as an apprenticeship under a veteran teacher who has consistently demonstrated mastery of the craft. Thankfully, K-12 education can rework how it prepares new teachers and
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12-Year-Old Boy’s Ice Cream Stand Gets Shut Down, But His Entrepreneurial Spirit Persists 0
- Economics, MomThink
- August 22, 2024
Danny Doherty wanted to spend his summer vacation productively. For the past few summers, the now-twelve-year-old boy from the Boston suburb of Norwood, Massachusetts, had been asking to have a summer job to earn his own money. Youth employment regulations can make it difficult for young people to gain work experience even if they want to, so
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Your Children Are More Important Than Your Dreams 2
- Family, MomThink
- August 19, 2024
The phenomenon known as Ballerina Farm on Instagram is one of the most popular moms in America. With her eight children, a gaggle of hogs, endless Instagram videos of baking from scratch, and her 10 million followers, Hannah Neeleman is a mom to be reckoned with. Oh, and she also wins beauty pageants like a boss. And
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C.S. Lewis on the True, the Good, and the Beautiful 2
- Featured, Literature, MomThink
- August 15, 2024
Are truth, goodness, and beauty related? C.S. Lewis and many others of the greatest minds in the Western tradition thought so. For thousands of years, philosophers and theologians have argued that these “three transcendentals” are fundamentally connected. To understand one, you must understand all three. Truth, goodness, and beauty are called the “three transcendentals” because
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Manners Are the Adhesive Glue That Binds Society Together 4
- Culture, MomThink
- August 14, 2024
Convention, customs, manners and civility. When my daughter Ella was 16, I met her at a local restaurant for dinner. I was already seated when she arrived and before I could hold the chair out for her, she plopped down in the seat next to me. I was livid. I stood up and told her
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What Happened to American Civics?2
- Education, History, MomThink
- August 12, 2024
My son’s school assigned a civics project for summer vacation. The project’s scope is expansive and spans from explaining the history and functions of the three branches of government to creating a flip book of landmark Supreme Court cases like Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education. One of the tasks is a minor level of
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