Religious Schools Less Troubled by Drugs
According to a new study, Catholic and other religious schools have fewer drug-related problems than public schools.
According to a new study, Catholic and other religious schools have fewer drug-related problems than public schools.
In many public-school districts, uniform policies are coming to be seen as one small, but significant,"counter-strike against the powerful influence of an increasingly aggressive popular culture.
"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.
Individuals whose schooling was specialized rather than liberal and who do not continue learning when they leave schooling behind, or do so only to improve their specialized expertise, never become generally educated human beings. This statement holds for most physicians, lawyers, and engineers, as well as for most who getting a Ph.D. merely indicated the field of specialization they would cultivate thereafter.
A college professor looks at the forgotten victims of our mediocre public educational system-the potentially high achievers whose SAT scores have fallen, and who read less, understand less of what they read, and know less than the top students of a generation ago.
In this Atlantic Monthly article the author argues that there is no good evidence that most uses of computers significantly improve teaching and learning, yet school districts are cutting programs-music, art, physical education-that enrich children's lives to make room for this dubious nostrum. Lets think through the matter of computers in the classroom clearly before rushing to embrace them at such great cost.
Russell Kirk's sobering reflections on the computer age are more pertinent today than at their writing in 1987.
Children growing up today are headed toward some formidable challenges.
The highest values of education in a democracy are more than the competitive advantage of an increasingly productive labor force.
Without competition, monopolies are free to impose high prices and shabby products on consumers.