This theme, that education is indoctrination and is actually harmful to our personhood, is extremely popular now, but largely among our nation’s uneducated people. This could be called “sour grapes,” but some (uneducated) people won’t know what this means. We’re …
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A Rarity: Improving American Education
I just met a senior executive at HopSkipDrive, an organization with an Uber-like business model, but one that focuses on providing a safe, reliable alternative school transportation solution. My new friend says that the typical schoolchild might be in foster …
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Honoring Our Educators
Much speculation has gone into pinning down exactly where American education fell off the rails. We might infer that Aristotle would point to how our teachers are both underpaid and rendered impotent in establishing order in the classroom.
Actively Destroying Education in America
We’re banning books while we muzzle and starve our teachers. We’re sending the cream of our public school student population to charter schools, leaving the most difficult kids behind. We’re creating the perfect set of conditions for a democracy to …
American Education Faces a New Challenge
It’s common for Americans to lament that things like penmanship (cursive) are no longer taught in our schools. I’ve never been too sympathetic here, on the basis that there are only so many minutes in a school day, and everything …
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GOP Appoints QAnon’s Marjorie Taylor Greene to Educational Committee
When public education wrecking ball Betsy DeVos left office, did it dawn on anyone that we’d soon be speaking about someone associated with American education who is arguably even worse? From this: The Democratic chair of the House Education and …
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