As noted previously, the good intentions that our Founding Reformers had in mind when they began the movement towards reforming education in the late 1790s, had a lot in common with our own good intentions today, but those good intentions are just abou…
We’ve already noted the abundance of good intentions that patriots like Noah Webster, Dr. Rush, and Ben Franklin had when urging a ‘New!’ system of education upon us as a means to improve people and fit them to secure their new Republic, much of which …
From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, Philadelphia August 11. 1777:I wish to turn your Thoughts early to such Studies, as will afford you the most solid Instruction and Improvement for the Part which may be allotted you to act on the Stage of…
The fact that even with twelve plus years of schooling, many of our students today can’t or won’t read, or write, or count, says all that should need to be said about the methods of modern schooling in general and of public education in particular. Wha…
American’s changing understanding of what ‘education’ is and is for, has changed us from being a people who were literate enough for The Federalist Papers to be written for persuading the common farmer and ‘man in the street’ on adopting a constitution…
“…As for literature–to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by bei…
What should, and should not be, in a school library? Who decides that? Do school libraries serve different purposes than public libraries? Is removing books from a school library the same thing as banning or censoring books? Questions like these have b…
I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting for an action such as this. Homeschooling is always good to see. Micro-Schools and Learning Pods have been encouraging. Parents fighting back against school boards and starting their own private schools, has …
What is the purpose of Sunshine Requests? To let in a sanitizing sunlight on govt activities that seem shadowy to citizens who have concerns that they are possibly involved in improper or illegal behavior, right? Do you suppose that the legislation was…