Education & Parenting
Education & Parenting, Reviews
Three Gems by Children's Author Cynthia Rylant
Daniel Wahl December 12, 2015
Daniel Wahl reviews three books by children's author Cynthia Rylant.
Education & Parenting, Science & Technology
Doug Peltz on Science Education and Mystery Science
Daniel Wahl December 12, 2015
Peltz discusses MS's efforts to inspire kids to love science, to investigate questions, and to pursue the knowledge they need to make sense of the world.
Education & Parenting, Reviews
A Dozen Great Apps for Children Learning Math
Daniel Wahl December 12, 2015
Daniel Wahl reviews a dozen apps for children learning math.
Education & Parenting, Good Living
A Dozen Great Books for Young Children
Daniel Wahl September 3, 2015
A stroll through some of the best children’s books in print and a few out of print. If you have young children or know anyone who does, this is a gold mine.
Education & Parenting, Good Living, Philosophy
How To Raise a Life-Loving Child
Shows how one basic principle applies to all aspects of parenting and raising a reality-oriented, independent-thinking, life-loving child.
Education & Parenting, Politics & Rights
Obama’s “Free” Community College Scheme
Michael A. LaFerrara January 18, 2015
Barack Obama recently announced a plan to use taxpayer money to pay the full tuitions of community college students. This proposed program is immoral and destructive on several counts. To begin with, the program would violate the rights of taxpaying Americans who would be forced to fund the program.
Education & Parenting, Politics & Rights
Smith College President Says “All Lives Matter”; Racist Left Goes Ballistic
Ari Armstrong December 15, 2014
The solution to the problem of police brutality is not to presume white officers guilty and the black men they confront blameless, nor to focus only on black victims of police abuse; rather, the solution is to demand justice for each individual, as judged by the relevant facts of a given case. Because all lives matter.
Education & Parenting, Politics & Rights
The Government’s Renewed Assault on Private-Sector Colleges
Michael A. LaFerrara December 10, 2014
New federal regulations intentionally target private, for-profit colleges. The government should not be involved in lending money to students at all. But so long as it is, and so long as it regulates these loans, it is morally obligated—and should be legally obligated—to treat all students and all educational institutions equally under the law.
Education & Parenting
Political Chaos in Colorado’s Jefferson County Schools Illustrates Problems of Government Control
Ari Armstrong October 1, 2014
So long as government controls education, political fights over education are inevitable and unending. The alternative, as Americans must learn if they wish to achieve a high-quality, choice-driven education system, is the complete separation of school and state.
Education & Parenting
Government Should Not “Determine Everything” about Education; It Should Determine Nothing about It
Michael A. LaFerrara September 29, 2014
In a free market in education, with complete separation of government and schools, lawmakers would have no power to interfere in schools or to meddle with contracts between educators and parents.