Summary: Schools don’t teach facts, apparently because the Education Establishment prefers empty-headed kids who can be told what to think...

Summary: when you understand why educators scorn geography, you know all the reasons why American public schools keep getting dumber...

Perhaps you saw the exchange on television  One guest said, “The administration’s approach is destructive; they must be trying to hurt the country...

Teachers play a crucial role in nurturing the intellectual and social development of students in their formative years...

The goal of education has always been to achieve critical thinking Needless to say, this involves a two-step process: first, students learn a great deal about a topic, whether in history, science or art; then they learn to arrange the information in new ways, to set one fact against another, to find new insights among this knowledge...

I’ve been writing about education more than 25 years It’s been a fascinating journey...

Our educators aren’t very good at raising SAT scores, increasing literacy, or spreading knowledge But they are world-class at making excuses...