Is the Lack of Playtime Preven...
Annie Holmquist – Hey, did you hear about the preschool that has its students doing fractions by the time they enter...
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Learning from a Little Princes...
Devin Foley – When it comes to life lessons, classic children’s books have a special way of conveying truths and wisdom. They...
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Is the modern expansion of preschool really a development? Nowadays there powerful lobbying efforts to increase government funding...
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Daniel Lattier – Daniel Lattier – Public school districts today are increasingly identifying screen time with education....
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Education News Annie Holmquist – Unsocialized religious freaks living in the sticks. That’s how many critics view...
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Daniel Lattier – Some of you have read historian David McCullough’s books, which include 1776, John Adams, and Truman. At the...
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by Shannon Roberts – Children’s toys and play in general have changed dramatically over the last few generations. Being...
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Daniel Lattier – Since its beginnings, America has directed most of its educational energies toward creating average students....
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Daniel Lattier – There’s a growing consensus that the curriculum of many American high schools has been dumbed down, and...
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Annie Holmquist – You’ve either heard of a situation like the following or been in it yourself: The 29-year-old head of the...
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Daniel Lattier – Below is the opening statement of “A Nation at Risk,” a 1983 document from Ronald Reagan’s National Commission...
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Daniel Lattier – With the July 31 release of the biopic The End of the Tour, the late author David Foster Wallace is once again...
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Annie Holmquist – I recently dug up a 1908 curriculum manual in the Minnesota Historical Society archives. It provided...
read moreThe Diploma Mill That Is St. P...
Annie Holmquist – We’ve been asking the question for a long time: is the St. Paul Public School district simply a diploma mill...
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Devin Foley – Surely the numbers Better Ed has been publishing for years couldn’t be true! There’s no way that...
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Daniel Lattier – With the growth of standardized testing in recent decades, America’s education system has increasingly removed...
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Below is a white privilege survey that has been administered to teachers and students across the nation by Pacific Educational...
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Annie Holmquist – How do today’s American history textbooks differ from those of nearly a century ago? I found...
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Annie Holmquist – On Friday, the U.S. Department of Education released a document detailing ways parents can foster a better...
read moreWither Catholic Education?
Michael Lotti – It’s probably time for a long-term renewal of American Catholic schools. On the surface, the Catholic...
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