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June 2012

June 09, 2012

Commencement Cold Water

David McCollough, speaking to the 2012 graduates at Wellesley High School: No, commencement is life’s...

June 07, 2012

When your child goes off to college, they need you

This post is by Syler Thomas. I’m wrapping up a series on preparing for college,...

June 02, 2012

Advice for Students Attending a Christian College

This post is by Syler Thomas. Years ago, when I started meeting with my student...

June 01, 2012

If Jesus Came to… What would he do first?

This post is by Syler Thomas. A number of years back, the Christian media group...

May 2012

May 26, 2012

Three Pigs and the Faith

This post is by Syler Thomas. One March afternoon, when I was in the process...

May 20, 2012

That World Civ Class

It’s high school graduation time and we’re going through some themes in the new book...

May 18, 2012

Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commands for Liberalism

From Maria Popova: Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in...

May 18, 2012

Internet Class on Steroids

From Wired: Last fall, the university in the heart of Silicon Valley did something it...

May 04, 2012

Universities more intolerant?

By David French: Not long ago, the university was seen as a world apart—an idyllic...

April 2012

April 26, 2012

Hello Northern Seminary

For at least five years I have had an inner yearning to teach in a...

April 25, 2012

Farewell North Park

A little over seventeen years ago I got a phone call from David Nystrom, professor...

April 24, 2012

Grading, Grading, Grading

From McSweeney's ... the four stages of grading: THE STAGES OF GRADING. BY DEBBY THOMPSON -...

April 14, 2012

Homeschooling

Our friend Helen Lee tells her story of entering the homeschooling option ... and I...

April 13, 2012

Teaching toward the Test

From Mary Beth Lee, a Texas public school teacher: Dear Texas State Legislators, Governor Perry,...

March 2012

March 23, 2012

Bilingual = Smarter

From YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE: SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in...

March 04, 2012

Christian Colleges and Racial Diversity

It's Sunday. On Sunday the church celebrates its Lord, and it also celebrates together --...

March 01, 2012

Evangelical Center for Christian Thought: Issues

Thomas Albert Howard and Karl Giberson: This spring semester, California’s Biola University, among the nation’s...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Homeschooling vs. Public Education into Society

From Conor Friedersdorf: What this shows is that some see public education as social engineering,...

February 17, 2012

Professors: What about lectures?

This piece by Craig Lambert, from Harvard Magazine, repeats a well-known meme -- that lectures...

February 12, 2012

Textbooks, the coming future?

Here it comes: The Rice University-based open-education platform Connexions today unveiled a bold plan to shake up...

February 07, 2012

Our Laws are Colliding

This is a serious issue, but it is also an example of how our laws...

February 03, 2012

Long term, ADD drugs

This article sketches the view that ADHD drugs don't work in the longterm. THREE million...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

What Matters Most in the Classroom

From Suzy Khimm: Two Harvard researchers looked at the factors that actually improve student achievement...

January 19, 2012

Those Educators…

... well, I have to admit that I tire of educrats who think they know...

January 18, 2012

Professors and Students What do you think of e-books?

Professors and students, what do you think of e-book formats for course textbooks? From USAToday...

January 15, 2012

No Wonder Lincoln Moved from Kentucky

Have you seen this high school entrance test in the year 1912?

January 13, 2012

Nick Kristof is right: it begins early, in the home

Kris and I both appreciated this article by Nick Kristof: love, hugs, and family attentiveness...

January 09, 2012

Teaching Strategy

December 2011

December 21, 2011

Teachers and Creative Students

By Alex Tabarrok: One of the most consistent findings in educational studies of creativity has...

November 2011

November 07, 2011

Single-Sex Education, Co-Education?

The evidence, according to this team of researchers, is that co-education is superior to single-sex...