Study after study of adolescents at correctional institutions has shown that the one thing they have in common is that they cannot-read. With a research grant funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Michael Brunner set out to determine if the … [Read more...] about How the Schools Produce Juvenile Delinquents
Big Brother Education, 1994 — May 1994
Colleges Should Display Warning Labels
Based on my visits to hundreds of college campuses, I believe that all colleges should be subject to Truth in Labeling requirements and should carry warning labels to advise teenagers what they are getting into. It takes extraordinary smarts, … [Read more...] about Colleges Should Display Warning Labels
Education Reporter — April 1994
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 lot of prominent people, and even the Wall Street Journal featured an editorial … [Read more...] about Why I Don’t Read to My Children
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 six children to read before they entered school. Our family got a bigger return for the time I spent … [Read more...] about The Most Fulfilling Thing I’ve Ever Done — March 1994
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 the basics, subject matter … [Read more...] about The Nonsense of Outcome-Based Education
Education Reporter — January 1994
