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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Oops! I'll Do It Again. And Again. And Again... - James BowmanBeginning next month, the College Board will allow high-school students who have taken the SATs multiple times to submit only their highest score to the colleges to which they are applying. Read more... Opening a window on closed campus minds - Barbara KayA new documentary shows how repressive university political correctness has become. Read more... Our Listless Universities - Allan BloomToday a young person does not generally go off to the university with the expectation of having an intellectual adventure, of discovering strange new worlds, of finding out what the comprehensive truth about man is. Instead, the primary concern of our best universities is to indoctrinate social attitudes, to ‘socialize,’ rather than to educate. The result is true philistinism, a withering of taste and a conformity to what is prevalent in the present. …It means the young have no heroes, no objects of aspiration. It is all both relaxing and boring, a soft imprisonment. Read more... Outcome-Based Education - WILLIAM J. BENNETTSome of the confusion surrounding outcome-based education is based on semantics. Read more... Parent-Free Zone - JOHN LEO"Anticulturalism" is the dominant ideology among child development experts, and it has filtered into the courts, into the schools, into our kitchens and family rooms. Read more... Parental Informed Consent Notice - B. K. EakmanThe following letter is a useful template for parents wanting assurance that their child’s school will provide written notification whenever physical, mental health, or social services/counseling is administered to their child. Read more... Parochial-School Lessons - Christopher WillcoxA solution to a 19th-century problem finds success in a 21st-century setting. Read more... Performance and Moral Character: A Blueprint for Developing Character in Competitive Contexts - Matthew L. Davidson, Kelli Moran-Miller, and Jeffrey Pratt BeedyWhat follows is meant to be a theoretical blueprint for developing character in performance environments. As a blueprint, it attempts to provide broad theoretical plans for constructing a sport experience that consistently develops good character. Read more... Perspectives on the Terrorist Attacks of Sep. 11 - Virtue in ActionRemember the suffering. Honor the heroism. How does 9/11 speak to us today Read more... Philistines at the Gate - Lee HarrisIn a recent meeting of the Board of Education in the city of Artichoke, Alabama, it was decided to ban the reading of Homer's Illiad and Odyssey in the classroom. The grounds given for the exclusion of these towering masterpieces of ancient literature is that reading them in a public school violated the first amendment's guarantee of the separation of church and state. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 20-Nov-2009 - 09:53:11
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