Category : Education
Why We Need to Take Education Back to Past Practices
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Sometimes the best way to go forward is to go backward. In 1899, the population of Boonville, North Carolina was under 200. It was a...
Coronavirus Reminds Us What Education Without Schooling Can Look Like
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As the global coronavirus outbreak closes more schools for weeks, and sometimes months—some 300 million children are currently missing class—parents, educators, and policymakers are panicking....
Is Bernie Right about Education in Cuba?
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders spent a large part of the last week defending earlier statements he made regarding Fidel Castro and Cuba. While denouncing the...
Three Questions Bernie Sanders Can’t Answer
Senator Bernie Sanders is inching closer to securing the Democratic nomination for president, which seemed implausible only five months ago. Still, he has met or...
Trump’s Big Bet On Career and Technical Education
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Shaun M. Dougherty, Vanderbilt University President Donald Trump has proposed one of the largest increases in funding for career and technical education in recent history....
93 Vermont Towns Have No Public Schools, But Great Education. How Do They Do It?
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In just a couple of weeks, 50 boys with learning disabilities will take to a stage in Vermont, one after the other, to recite the...
Families Today Have More Schooling Options Than Ever, But Nowhere Near Enough
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I am a glass-half-full kind of person, so while we could focus on the criticisms and some of the setbacks related to expanding educational freedom...
“Miss Virginia” Shows the Dilemma Many Lower-Income Families Face on Schooling
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Every once in awhile, a film comes along that you can’t stop thinking about long after the credits roll. Miss Virginia is such a movie....
New Jersey Teachers Prep Lesson Plans On LGBTQ History, Homosexual Persecution During Holocaust
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Mary Margaret Olohaney The curriculum comes after New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a 2019 law requiring all public schools to include LGBTQ lessons in middle school...
An Old Debate Over Religion in School is Opening Up Again
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David Mislin, Temple University As the 2020 election approaches in the United States, President Donald Trump is adding school prayer to the list of contentious...