How will Artificial Intelligence (AI) impact education? Many articles, books and seminars have sought to address the topic. It’s complicated. Sorting out the valuable from the snake oil only adds…
Daniel Buck shares with National Review Online readers an excerpt from his new book discussing problems in American schools. Early in my career, I did everything my university teacher-prep had…
Progressives have sought to use public schools to advance their social and political agenda for nearly a century. George Counts' 1932 pamphlet “Dare the School Build a New Social Order?”…
Carolina Journal Online reports on high-profile cases before the N.C. Court of Appeals as it returns to in-person hearings this week. John Hood’s CJ Opinion explores the long-term negative impact…
View in your browser. Welcome In an article published by EdNC, Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson laid out her vision of where public education in North Carolina will be…
If you talk to school leaders who are allowed to choose among applicants who have been through an ed school program and applicants who haven’t, you’ll often hear that they…
Professor E. D. Hirsch argues that the falling SAT scores reveal the crucial fault (among lots of merely serious faults) in American education: kids aren’t required to develop language skills.…
In the recent City Journal, Sol Stern writes an insightful profile of the radical education professor who also happens to be Obama’s neighbor. Here is a sample: Ayers?s texts on…
Here is an important article from today’s Wall Street Journal about the “progressive education” attack on competition. It does a lot to explain why it’s so hard to teach college…
In the Occupational Outlook Handbook, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) outlines career information (training, earnings, job prospects, nature of the work, etc.) for all major and legal professions. I…
The writer of this article correctly pins the blame on “progressive” theories that math isn’t about learning and applying formulas, but should instead be about “discovery” and that getting the…
Terry, It seems to me that “charitableness” has nothing to do with this situation. I think it turns on gullibility. BTW, I also tried carrier pigeon, but the poor bird…