What Your Kid’s Teacher Is Scared To Tell You About Smartphones
Although smartphones have largely mollified students’ destructive energy, they have also smothered their creative energy and shaved off their humanity.
Students Should Be Responsible For Their Performance, Not Just Teachers
Failing to meet expected test growth targets does not affect my fifth grade students in any real way, and they and their families know it.
Why Do Teachers Like Me Keep Coming Back To School? Love
Parent emails, difficult administration, limited pay raise potential, the looming threat of strikes — why would one choose to enter such a field?
7 Tips For Sending Your Child Off To College
For us, the first day of college felt almost like the first day of kindergarten, as we stepped back from being the primary directors of our child’s studies and daily schedule.
In Response To Attacks, New Florida Law Aims To Protect Religious Expression In Public Schools
The state’s landmark legislation aims to protect religious expression, even as we see a national decrease in religious freedoms in public education.
Why You Should Take Those Cheesy Back-To-School Pictures Of Your Kids
We aren’t still angry teens, for Pete’s sake. We can grow into adults and do adult things, such as being excited about our kids.
These Wealthy Parents Put Their Kids In School Two Or Three Days A Week, And Love It
For two or three days per week, students come together to a building, attend classes with regular teachers, and have classmates. The rest of the week, the students work on their own at home.
How To Help Your Kids Learn To Write—And Love Writing
The art of writing often stems from the joy of reading and sharing information. Growing those loves in our children is the first step.
If You’re Not A Dad, Don’t Go To Dad Events At School
Moms and dads are not interchangeable units. And if mothers can attend events meant only for dads, fathers-only gatherings become meetings for anyone, losing their entire purpose.
Pressed By Common Core And LGBT Agenda, More Families Homeschool
Local newspapers and homeschool leaders from West Virginia to Alabama and North Carolina to Texas report a surge in homeschooling interest and enrollment in just the past year or two.
How It Feels To Send A Beloved Daughter Off To College
Without pushing my daughter into the kind of education I had always wanted but didn’t have as a poor immigrant, I gained a daughter who appreciates the good in life.
3 Ways To Teach Math That Might Actually Work
I want my daughter to remember that math is about problem-solving, and imagination, and of endless promise.
State University Posts ‘Conservatives Need Not Apply’ Pledge For Potential Hires
Even janitors must pledge allegiance to diversity and ‘inclusion’ if they want to get hired at the University of Cincinnati. We all know what that means.
8 Ways To Simplify Back To School
The fade of summer and rush to set up life to run smoothly during the school year can stress even the most organized family. Here are some tips to help.
What Do American Schools Teach About Islam? PC Or Nothing
As militant Islam becomes more prominent in world affairs, it becomes less prominent in American classrooms.
Why Making College ‘Free’ Won’t Help The Poor
I have taught some of the poorest Americans, so I know it is laughable to think most poor students fail to graduate from college simply because it costs too much.
How A War Hero Launched A War On Bad Math Instruction
John Saxon retired from the military in 1970 and began teaching college students. When they couldn’t do basic math, he wrote them a curriculum that millions of children use today.
How To Get Your Money’s Worth Out Of College
You can’t trust a college degree to provide job security or a good education, but that doesn’t mean there are no schools out there worth attending.
The University Of Tennessee’s Pronoun Problems Indict Higher Education
Pushing ‘gender-neutral pronouns’ such as ‘xe’ and ‘zir’ are what colleges do nowadays instead of actually adding value to society.
When Christians Are More Open-Minded Than Liberals
Pundits’ reactions to a young man who objects to reading soft porn display the Left’s hypocrisy about whose views should be challenged and whose should be coddled.
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