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
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, and to do this without any procedure that can reasonably be described as … [Read more...] about Should Schools Become Parents of Preschoolers?
Should Self Esteem Replace the 3 R’s?
Elementary school children may no longer be taught to read and write, but they will almost surely be given one of the trendy new psychological courses in self-esteem. Self-esteem is supposed to be the magic bullet that will cure all school and social … [Read more...] about Should Self Esteem Replace the 3 R’s?
