social issues

Debbie Harbeson at Blogging Tips states that Blogging is Better than School. The mental habits we pick up in school are deadly when blogging...

Cross-posted from the Journal of Educational Controversy Blog. The progressive language implicit in many of President Obama's programs w...

Dana Goldstein at The American Prospect has provided a comprehensive state of the art summary of the battle between teachers uniions and edu...

A few months ago, I wrote a short post on Social Issues about Québec's new Ethics and Religious Culture program. Religious education ma...

This week freedom fighter/terrorist William Ayers (who is also an educational theorist and reformer) will be giving an endowed education lec...

Originally, I was going to write a piece on “slumdog epistemology”, but then I read this: The-story-of-Slumdog-Millionaire-decoded . . . ...

The Political Animal summarizes President Obama's March 10 address to the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, laying out the out...

In these economically perilous times colleges are more worried than ever that the most desirable students will reject them in favor of other...

Nicholas Kristof in a recent article, Our Greatest National Shame in the New York Times has declared that fixing our national educational s...

As most readers of this blog know, John Dewey isn't exactly a beloved figure in conservative America. Recently, Human Events Magazine as...