Who Are the World’s Smartest Kids? Part 4
What do we do about the public schools, which still mis-educate about 85 percent of American children? ...
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Who Are the World’s Smartest Kids? Part 3
There is much that American educators could learn by studying how Finland, South Korea, and Poland were able to achieve their high educational standings. ...
Who Are the World’s Smartest Kids? Part 2
The successful homeschool phenomenon in the United States does not address the question of how public education can be improved here. The Finnish model cannot be replicated as long as our...
Who Are the World’s Smartest Kids? Not Americans
According to the PISA (Program for international Student Assessment) 2012 test, the smartest kids in the world are Asians: students in Shanghai-China, South Korea, Singapore, Hong-Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. ...
Intensive Phonics: The Magic Bullet
In order to reverse the severe decline in literacy in this country, the best way to teach children to read is with intensive phonics, expanding the use of language and logic....
“Class Dismissed”: New Film Promotes Homeschooling
Class Dismissed, a new full-length documentary film about homeschooling, was screened in the Boston area on December 1, having already been seen by sold-out audiences in November on the West Coast...
Sight Method of Teaching Reading Causes Dyslexia
The sight-reading method of teaching reading, which was instituted in the 1930s in American public schools to replace phonics, actually causes dyslexia. ...
Education and the American Dream
A recent study places the United States fifth among nations that have people with college degrees; we rank 12th in K-12 educational achievement, while once-impoverished South Korea now ranks first. ...
New York City’s Educational Woes
According to tests, less than half of New York public school students are college ready in the way of English, and less than 18 percent are college ready in mathematics. ...
Fifty Years of Title 1: Has It Worked?
Title 1, which is a federal program meant to help poor and minority children succeed in school, has been in place for 50 years, but it still hasn't helped those children....
Americanism: The Creed of a Free People
Americanism is the Bible-based creed of a free people, the philosophy of the Founding Fathers as stated in the Declaration and the Constitution. ...
Biology Professor Tells Students: Science and Religion Cannot Be Reconciled
David P. Barash, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Washington, makes it a point at the beginning of each academic year to tell his students that science and...
Yale Professor: “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League”
William Deresiewicz, who taught at Yale for 10 years, recommends that students not go to Yale or other Ivy League schools, or even strive to go there. ...
Jeb Bush’s Education Summit Promotes Common Core
The Education Summit in Boston on October 17-18 featured much bipartisan support for Common Core, charter schools, and other types of "education reform" that won't help American education. ...
How to Take Back the Public Schools
Children deserve to be saved from our nihilist public schools by conservatives who know how these children are being cynically used to keep the Left in power. And of course we...