Education & Parenting

Daniel Wahl reviews a dozen apps for children learning math.

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.

Shows how one basic principle applies to all aspects of parenting and raising a reality-oriented, independent-thinking, life-loving child.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learning at Our House is a suite of products for homeschoolers that covers history, music, literature, and science. The classes are taught online to a live audience and are available as recordings as well. Scott Powell created History at Our House, the original program, and later invited others to create the adjunct products.

The U.S. government’s “pay as you earn” program for financing college students’ education is immoral, as it forces taxpayers to subsidize student loans and to assume the financial risks of doing so. Fortunately, Lumni, a pioneering private college finance company, offers an inspiring example of how students can acquire college financing by strictly voluntary means.