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Children Must Submit
HT: MM What is the role of the child in school? Many conservative thinkers, now and in the past, have insisted that children must learn to submit to teachers’ authority. Before they can learn to read...
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Traditional Education Is Not Illegal…or Is It?
Nobody thinks men should punch their wives and drag them through hotels. But plenty of traditional educators and parents DO think that corporal punishment is not only proper, but necessary. The recent...
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Only Conservatives Can Be Good Teachers
Quick: What’s the most important trait a child needs in order to do well in school? Brains? A cool retro lunchbox? At World Magazine this morning, Amy Henry offers what she calls the “conservative”...
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Whose Values Rule the Schools?
What are the dominant values in American public schools? Progressive activists tend to think schools are dominated by conservatism. But conservatives say that progressives are in charge. New poll data...
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What Conservatives Want in Schools
When I started the research for my new book, lo those many years ago, my first stop was College Park, Maryland. The National Archives hold the papers of William J. Bennett, Reagan’s second Secretary of...
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OK: AP not OK
What does creationism have to do with the Continental Army? What does George Washington have to do with the Genesis Flood? This week the news from Oklahoma gives us an example of the ways conservative...
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When Did Tests Become Conservative?
Something happened. The idea of administering standardized tests to check the success of schooling has had a strange ideological career. Tests have been seen as a progressive panacea as well as a...
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Sex In, Kids Out
Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park Elementary School started its year half empty. Why? Parents were concerned that students would gain knowledge, so they pulled their kids out in protest. It sounds weird when...
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A Field Test for Progressive Education
I’ve spent the past few years of my life trying to figure it out. What has it meant to be “conservative” about American education? It’s not as obvious as it might look. Similarly, it can be extremely...
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Okay, kids, time to fess up. Some of you students at conservative schools have been trying to cheat on your exams…haven’t you. Here’s how we know: Our editorial page here at ILYBYGTH lets us see the...
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