Category: Education
Why I Don’t Read to My Children
For the past several years, there has been a highly-publicized campaign to promote the notion that all parents should read to their children. This campaign has involved a…
Education Reporter — March 1994
The Most Fulfilling Thing I’ve Ever Done — March 1994
The Most Fulfilling Thing I’ve Ever Done When people ask me, what is the most fulfilling thing I’ve done in my whole life, I answer — teaching my…
Education Reporter — February 1994
The Nonsense of Outcome-Based Education
The most controversial words in the education world today are Outcome-Based Education (sometimes called Performance-Based Education, and formerly called Mastery Learning). Parents recognize it as a process that rejects…
Education Reporter — January 1994
What Are They Teaching in Public Schools? — January 1994
Education Reporter — December 1993
Should Schools Become Parents of Preschoolers?
A battle in the Illinois General Assembly this year exposed the far-reaching goal of the public school system to bring under its jurisdiction all children beginning at birth,…