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Trade School or College? The Many Benefits of Encouraging Children to Choose Their Own Educational Path
It was the third day of kindergarten. My son jumped into the car and announced, “I’m not going to school anymore. I’m going to be a truck driver!” I looked at my wife and then my son and simply said, “You’ve got a long way to go until you can do that; I think we…
Fears Pandemic Education Fallout Not Over in Australia
One in two Australian parents and carers feel the COVID-19 pandemic is still making learning difficult for their children, research shows. A new survey from the Smith Family charity has found one in two parents and carers feel the pandemic is still making learning difficult for their children. Roughly three-quarters of parents and carers worry…
Jewish Community Leads Fight Against NY’s Latest Push for Greater Private School Control
New York State is considering far-reaching new controls over private schools to make them “substantially equivalent” to public schools, sparking concerns among advocates of religious liberty and parental rights. Under the proposal, students at private schools the state does not approve of could, legally at least, be declared “truant.” That would put parents at risk…
School Closings and Violent Youth: A Potential Link
Commentary Our greatest fears have now seemed to materialize. The school closures, social dislocation, the two years of isolation, the lockdown psychosis, plus dehumanizing masking and the resulting anxiety, depression, and despair, may have unleashed and may have enhanced depraved and murderous behavior. Two major incidents have been in the news but the trend is…
When Taking Notes, the Hand Still Reigns Supreme
Evernote. OneNote. Notability. Agenda. Ulysses. Supernote. Mobiscribe. Day One. Moleskine Journey. Oodles of note-taking apps now populate the Mac and Windows ecospheres, while an ever-swelling array of tablets, laptops, and e-ink notepads have sprung up on which to use them. The lot seems to grow only more feature-rich—and attractive—by the day. (I’ve taken more than…
Tell-All Report Leads the Texas Association of School Boards to Quit National Body
A nonprofit that serves local school boards in Texas joins 22 other states in withdrawing from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) after a Sept. 29, 2021 letter sent to U.S. President Joe Biden was thoroughly analyzed. Funding for the Texas Association of Schools Boards (TASB) membership renewal for the upcoming year would have been…
Liberal MP Keen to Return to Education Portfolio to Tackle Woke Agenda
Australian Liberal MP Alan Tudge has expressed his wish to return to the education portfolio as the shadow minister after he raised concerns about the revisionist history portrayed in Australia’s curriculum, declining educational standards and cancel culture on the university campus. Tudge also noted that he “would certainly like to be considered” as the liberal…
A Better Way to Discipline Kids? The Results Suggest ‘Yes’ (Part 2)
Can a relatively simple, no-cost, no-tech, no-pain method of discipline really remold student behavior? As we discussed last time, the answer so far seems to be a very promising “yes” in the case of what’s called “Collaborative & Proactive Solutions” (or CPS). The approach is the brainchild of Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., and is described…
How Children Become Progressives
Commentary How are progressives made? By cooking them in a public school six hours a day, five days a week where they are seemingly indoctrinated with an ideology that contradicts the values and beliefs of many of their parents. It began as a trickle, but now is approaching a flood as activist groups—notably LGBTQ organizations—have…
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