A recent study on students at a university in the UK has found that just more than two percent of the total internet activity though the university’s WiFi was used on education. “There was four times more social media activity, ten times more search activity and three times more shopping activity over the academic year…
Just More than 2 Percent of University Wifi Used On Education, Study Finds
March 13, 2022
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CRT in Schools: Canadians Would Do Well to Discern the Chasmic Difference Between ‘Equity’ and ‘Equality’
Commentary Critical race theory (CRT) is a divisive cluster of notions that reduces human beings to cogs in an identity wheel, segregates them according to DNA, and strips them of individual agency and rights. But it has penetrated all our institutions with incredible speed and efficiency—on the horizon one day, ubiquitous the next. The public…
How Higher Education Was Brought Low
March 7, 2022
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Riots, censorship, harassment, the squelching of free speech—these and more have been occurring on the campuses of colleges and universities across the country. John M. Ellis discusses how in many, if not all, instances the blame should not be placed on the students, but rather the faculties and administrations of the institutions of higher learning….
Why College Degrees Are Working Against Many Job-Seekers
‘Would you rather hire someone who ran a marathon, or had a college degree?’ I remember when I saw the question posed on LinkedIn. It got hundreds of responses, almost all of whom said they’d pick the marathoner. It turns out, the story most young people have been told about the value of degrees on…
Rep. Virginia Foxx on America’s Education Crisis
The United States is facing an education crisis as a result of the Biden administration pleasing teachers’ unions by keeping schools closed, said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), the top Republican on the House Education Committee. “We got an education crisis, it’s gonna take us a long time to catch up with what’s happened,” said Foxx…
Today’s Teens May Be More Money-Wise Than You Think
Teens who completed a personal finance class in high school would rather put $500 in the bank than buy a smartphone. You read that right. With personal finance education under their belts, students are three times as likely to choose saving money over buying a cellphone. In an age of texting, Snapchatting, and Instagramming—that’s kind…
A Partnership to Help Children Succeed
“If you were anyone else, I would punch you in the face.” I stood there, holding my little girl, rather shocked by what I had just heard. I was a young teacher, and I had not had many dealings with parents and certainly never had one tell me he would punch me. Yet here stood…
Texas Voters Evenly Split on Direction of State Ahead of 2022 Primary: Poll
February 28, 2022
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With Texas primary elections looming on March 1, Texans are nearly evenly split over the direction of the Lone Star state, according to a poll released on Feb. 21. The state’s political climate is slightly more positive towards Republicans, the Dallas Morning News/University of Texas at Tyler poll shows. Half of the 1,188 respondents (50…
Florida House Passes ‘Parental Rights in Education’ Bill
Florida’s House of Representatives on Feb. 24 passed a bill related to parental rights in education, which, among various measures, would ban discussions in classrooms about “sexual orientation or gender identity in certain grade levels or in a specified manner.” The Republican-backed measure, HB 1557 (pdf), passed the House with a 69–47 vote, with mostly Republican support. It…
Objective Truth Is Finally Making a Comeback
Commentary “What is truth?” This was the question Pontius Pilate famously asked Jesus of Nazareth nearly two thousand years ago. Pilate was deeply uncomfortable with the objective truth claims made by Jesus and wanted to dismiss them. On one level, Pilate’s question is easy to answer. Truth is any statement that corresponds to reality. For…
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