Faculty Lounge Pew Research: Education Levels Vary by Religion Spencer Irvine February 9, 2017 From AFA Journal: Pew Research revealed in a December 2016 report titled “Religion and Education Around the World” that educational…
Guest Articles How About “America First” for College Admissions? Cliff Kincaid February 8, 2017 In a recent article, “Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges,” The Washington Post stumbled on…
Faculty Lounge Study: Majority of Immigrant Children in the US are US-Born Spencer Irvine February 6, 2017 From the Migration Policy Institute: The number of immigrants and refugees settling in the United States has increased dramatically in…
Faculty Lounge Teen Threw Paper Airplane at Teacher, Faces a Month in Jail Spencer Irvine January 31, 2017 From Reason: Georgetown County, South Carolina, sheriff’s deputies arrested a 17-year-old for throwing a paper airplane at a teacher. The…
Faculty Lounge As New York Schoolchildren Get Older, They Do Worse on Math Spencer Irvine January 27, 2017 From School Reform News: Results of 2016 state testing data indicate 44 percent of New York 3rd graders were proficient…
Faculty Lounge Most Millennials Favor School Choice Spencer Irvine From School Reform News: The authors of the EdChoice “2016 Schooling in America” report included an expanded sampling of millennials,…
Faculty Lounge More Schools are Reducing or Eliminating Homework Spencer Irvine From School Reform News: The Orchard School, an elementary school in South Burlington, Vermont, eliminated homework during the 2016–17 school…
Faculty Lounge There are Benefits to Religious Education, Study Finds Spencer Irvine January 13, 2017 From School Reform News, published by the Heartland Institute: Having students think about religion increases their political tolerance and ability…
Faculty Lounge Department of Education Revokes Accreditation from Accreditor of ITT Tech Spencer Irvine December 23, 2016 George Leef writes that at least 580,000 students, whose schools were accredited by the Accrediting Council of Independent Colleges and…
Faculty Lounge The Death of American Self-Education Spencer Irvine December 16, 2016 A great read over at The Imaginative Conservative on the struggles of Western civilization and American society to get the…
Faculty Lounge 3 Things You Should Know about Trump Pick Betsy DeVos Spencer Irvine December 15, 2016 From the Home School Legal Defense Association: Some commentators have expressed concerns about a few of the organizations she is…
Faculty Lounge School Survey: 9 of 10 Educators Claim They’ve Seen a Negative Impact on Students’ Mood since Trump Won Spencer Irvine December 8, 2016 Rethinking Schools conducted an online survey, in conjunction with the Southern Poverty Law Center, on the post-Trump school climate. Here…
