by Kevin Bauder | Dec 10, 2016 | America, Education, Family
Kerry McDonald says, “It’s a Great Time to Be a Homeschooler.” Read at the Foundation for Economic Education. According to new data released this month by the U.S. Department of Education, the number of homeschooled children has doubled since 1999 to...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 3, 2016 | Education, Politics
The feds are taking over and the public is behind it. For good or bad, the future is going to look different. So says Judith Eaton at Inside Higher Ed. At least some government authority over accreditation and public concern about the space and accountability are not...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 2, 2016 | Education, General Information
So says Stephanie Reese Masson in “The Death of Cursive Writing,” courtesy of the Chronicle of Higher Education. It took a while for this problem to sneak up on us at the college level. A CNN report in 2011 noted that, “states don’t require children...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 2, 2016 | Economics, Education, Ethics
The Obama administration wants to have the federal government forgive some $108 billion in student debt (total student debt in the US is well over a trillion dollars). What will be the effect? Joe Carter answers that question.
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 1, 2016 | Education, How the Left Thinks, Institutions
It will if some students get their way. A “sanctuary campus” is one in which the institution refuses to help federal authorities pursue illegal aliens. Read about it at Sojourners.
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 30, 2016 | Education, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Separation
I don’t know of a mainstream fundamentalists school that doesn’t allow its faculty to participate in the Evangelical Theological Society or the Evangelical Philosophical Society. I do know of certain non-academics who question the legitimacy of this...