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Tag: Education
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Pope Leo and the Illiteracy of Modern Movies
When we consider what film once was and what it can be, we realize what we are losing as we lose literacy.
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Woke Math Doesn’t Add Up
In the wake of DEI rollbacks, billionaire leftists are backing woke mathematic curricula for minority communities.
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What We Owe Graduates in the Age of the Great Slowdown
For too long, we’ve allowed the idea of college to operate on autopilot and assumptions.
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Pew’s Untrustworthy Spin of Its Social Trust Survey
Pew’s latest survey of social trust correctly measures the indicators of growing social distrust but, predictably, filters the interpretation of the data through a bogus and dated lens.
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Another Thing Folks Like About the South: Public Education’s Revival
A reform movement, dubbed the Southern Surge, is allowing education reformers to work around political resistance, improving literacy and overhauling failing schools.
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Getting Schooled
The absence of imagination and faith explains everything wrong with American education today.
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Getting Better By Going Back
The next administration needs to get back to basics. We need to restore law and order, the colorblind meritocracy, and quality education.
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Democrats: Jobs for Illegals, Welfare for Blacks
By now it ought to be a well-established fact that part of the Democratic “fundamental transformation” of America is keeping inner-city blacks on welfare by giving their jobs to illegal aliens.
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Rebuilding: New Tech, Old Principles
After draining the swamp, we need to ensure emerging tech serves the republic’s founding principles, rather than the interests of the centralized administrative state.
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Ding, Dong! The Public School Is Dead
Cara Fitzpatrick chose fear over facts in her account of American public schools. The title, itself, fails living up to reality.
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The New College of Florida Experiment Must Succeed
If New College succeeds, it will stiffen the spines of other governors to do what needed to be done a generation ago. But if it fails, it’s hard to see any hope of regaining higher education.
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Teach Migrant Children English—Bilingual Ed Is a Scam
Bilingual education creates linguistic chaos in the classroom, and it is failing nearly everywhere it is tried.
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Revolt of the ‘Karens’
Moms for Liberty, a proud group of American parents, is retaking control of their children’s educations from the government leftists now destroying it.
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When the Cure Is the Poison
John Agresto is full of ideas about what needs to be done to fix the broken liberal arts tradition. Unfortunately, his proposed plan won’t work—they're too liberal.
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I’ve Become Anti-American
If I sound like Jane Fonda circa 1968 when talking about America these days, it's because our media and politicians have turned Uncle Sam into a monster.
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A Bridge to Nowhere
Modernist education is a bridge to nowhere. This is so almost by definition because modernism holds no transcendent aim for man nor even any reliable bedrock of human truth upon which to build.