In the last few years, I’ve heard a lot of complaints that doctors don’t do real doctoring anymore. They do blood work and run various other scans and tests, but they often can’t seem to figure out the problem if a patient doesn’t fit the cookie-cutter mold that those tests and scans can diagnose. A…
Will the Williamson County Wars Fix Tennessee?
Commentary One of the premises of the book I am writing—working title “The Southbound Train”—is that if America is to be saved, if we are to hand down to our children and grandchildren something akin to the constitutional republic envisioned by the Founders, it will be through the red states. The blue states are already…
A Decline in Reading Skills Makes Geese for the Plucking
A teacher-friend of mine recently expressed sadness over the stagnation of her students. Before the pandemic she could see students steadily gaining ground. Now she was seeing zero progress on their tests—and maybe even some declines. Tests aren’t everything, she admitted, yet after struggling through online teaching and masks and other troubles, she was disheartened…
Taliban Cancels Girls’ Higher Education Despite Pledges
KABUL, Afghanistan—Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers decided against opening schools to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on a previous promise and opting to appease their hardline base at the expense of further alienating the international community. The unexpected decision, confirmed by a Taliban official Wednesday, came at the start of the new school year in Afghanistan….
LIVE: March For Life in Connecticut
The Epoch Times and NTD Television will live stream the “The March for Life” in Hartford, Connecticut, starting at 12:00 p.m. (ET) on March 23. Find more info here. At 12:00 p.m., participants will rally at the state capitol. Then at 1:00 p.m., participants will march around Bushnell Park to call for life-affirming laws and…
New Zealand Students to Learn Country’s History in New Curriculum
All New Zealand students will learn about their country’s own history from 2023 after years of advocacy from history teachers. Schools will now be required to teach students about the Treaty of Waitangi, how immigration has shaped the national identity, and about colonialism in the Pacific and the role New Zealand played in it. In addition,…
An Educational Opportunity
Commentary Some algorithm somewhere has decided that I’m undereducated, for regularly I receive via my internet server invitations to join masters’ courses at universities—at considerable expense to me, be it added. The algorithm appears not to have noticed that I’m past the age at which a further qualification, or pseudo-qualification, will do much for my…
Why Have We Let Colleges Rip Off Our Kids?
Commentary One of my sons goes to an elite eastern college that costs all-in $70,000 a year. The value of a school such as this isn’t so much the classroom experience, but the culture of being around other smart people and learning how to be a productive adult. The college experience, inside and outside the…
DeSantis Dumps End-of-Year Achievement Testing, Adds Progress Monitoring for Students
Florida Gov. Ron Desantis signed a bill into law on March 15 that eliminates year-end achievement testing for public school students in grades 3 to 10 and replaces it with a computer-based system to monitor students’ progress three times throughout the year. The new law also adds screening and monitoring of student performance from pre-kindergarten…
California Teacher Finds New Calling Amidst Pandemic Mandates
March 14, 2022
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As California lifted its school mask mandate and schools began to consider whether to modify their individual mask rules, one educator from Shasta County reflected on how the pandemic and school mask mandates led her to create her own education program. “I believed that I was harming students by forcing the masks on them. I…
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