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Is Our Education System Putting Our Country At Risk?0
- August 3, 2015
Below is the opening statement of “A Nation at Risk,” a 1983 document from Ronald Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education that warned of the urgent need to right the ship of the American education system: “Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being
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Today’s Schools Are Passing Kids Even When They Fail2
- August 3, 2015
Are schools increasingly passing students on to the next grade despite poor performance in class? That’s the issue recently explored by Jay Matthews in the Washington Post. Matthews describes the experiences of one parent who knew her daughter was deliberately ignoring her school work, yet was rewarded with a passing grade by her teacher: “A
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I’m Tired of Celebrating “Teachers”0
- July 31, 2015
The latest Key & Peele sketch “TeachingCenter” is still going viral. It’s a spoof of SportsCenter that imagines a world where we put as much time, energy, and money into honoring teachers as we do athletes. In case you haven’t seen it, here it is: Most of the reactions have been predictable: “If only…”; “Teachers
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Cursive: Easier Than We’ve Been Led to Believe?0
- July 31, 2015
You’ve either heard of a situation like the following or been in it yourself: The 29-year-old head of the customer service department walks down the hall and passes a hand-written complaint to a middle-age employee. “Here,” she says, “can you read this note for me? I can’t read the woman’s handwriting.” Puzzled, he looks at
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Wendell Berry’s Unsettling Description of Modern Life1
- July 31, 2015
“Man is a political animal.” Chances are that you’ve come across this line from Aristotle. You’ve also probably encountered the John Donne line that “No man is an island entire of itself.” And you may have heard them used to justify our life in modern society, where many of us are packed into cities and
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Is It Okay to Bribe Your Kids?0
- July 31, 2015
One of the “joys” of parenting is struggling to get your children to perform required tasks. The most difficult struggles usually involve getting them to do chores and homework. Sometimes, after initial pleas and threats have been fruitless, after the child has done a mediocre job, or even after the child has been punished,
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