Category: Schooling’s decline

The state has supplanted neighborliness and community with bribery and entitlements, but you know your old dad, 89, is fine for now in his little house at street’s end, and your littlest daughter brings him …

By Calvin Beisner I often ask people, “Who in his right mind ever thought it made any sense whatever to entrust to the government the shaping of the minds of the people by whose consent …

By David Tulis By God’s providence and the gift of an intelligent woman as wife I have avoided the great trap of public school. Passing a bus on the roadway, I often would tell my …

By Tammy Drennan I’ve been trying to get my head around the American attitude about education (and I’m American). I sometimes think that we Americans as a whole have no idea what education is. We …

By Franklin Sanders Professor X is a tenured professor at a large state university. He teaches in a discipline that requires great labor, technical expertise, and years of study to master. No doubt some subjects …

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. (The more that changes, the more it’s the same thing.) — French proverb In part a review of The Educator & the Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges the …

By David Tulis A Common Core critic in the Chattanooga area appears to have made an important conceptual break with the public school system, organizing a group that views an exodus as vital as her …