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The greatest president of them all, George Washington – surveyor, planter, trader, legislator, executive, and soldier – had no “higher education” at all. How ever did he manage it?
The latest cautionary tale in the news concerns a man who had his fifteen minutes of fame, enjoyed the trappings of power for decades, and now, at 70, Larry Summers is suffering quite a fall from grace.
When I retired in 2017 and finally got settled back in Michigan around 2019, I decided to try something new — teaching. I earned my interim certificate and took a job in what turned out to be one of the poorest counties in the state, measured by home values and income. You could see the poverty in the houses, the roads, and, more than anything, the expectations kids had for themselves.
I anticipate that many readers of this article would agree that the quality of education in America has been in a steady state of decline for decades.
I didn’t like the year-round model at first. It sucks going back a month earlier than the government schools (yes, government schools—let’s stop pretending they’re anything else). But after living it, I can tell you the payoff is real.
I will admit it: when I first saw this tweet from Greg Price, I had trouble believing it. No one, and I mean no one, could possibly be this stupid. Total Chaos at Arlington School Board Meeting, and You Won’t Believe What Left-Wingers Were Defending By Bonchie | Friday, August 22, 2025 9:45 AM EDT …
Reports are emerging that college students are using AI to write term papers and required assignments. Are these future leaders demonstrating innovation by utilizing the latest technology to prepare them for the real world or just cheating?
Abstract: We live in a society and time that seems very fluid regarding moral and ethical standards and conduct. This is especially true for people on the polar extremes of the left/right divide, but affects all of us. To make the situation even more complex, most of us think we highly morally evolved. Those …
Colorado Circles The Drain In A Sea Of Legislative Largesse And Lunacy
Trump is turning over the tables at the universities and chasing the elitists with a whip of cords.
A Generational Decline Of American Education
To say that the world of newspaper journalism has changed since I began my career at the Chicago Tribune last century would be a demonstrable understatement.
America’s education system wasn’t designed to unlock the genius in every child. It was designed to produce compliance. Efficiency. Predictability. In short—factory workers, not thinkers.
Hahvahd University is a private school, over which President Donald Trump, the hopefully soon-to-be-closed Department of Education, and the federal government in general have no direct authority.
President Trump’s destruction of the federal Department of Education is overdue because the states, not the president, should decide education policy.
In the grand tradition of uniquely stupid American ideas, the 1990s gifted us a real gem: “If you’re smart, you go to college. If you’re not, well… enjoy your life as blue-collar swine.”
Across every school I’ve worked in, I’ve noticed three fundamental skills that students lack: critical thinking, communication, and emotional control.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) didn’t kill STARBASE because it was wasteful—it killed it because it was an easy target.
College is hard work. Not just mentally, but physically. Frank has six classes today. Thus, Frank is compelled to carry a heavy pile of physical textbooks FOR EACH CLASS. A stack of hardbound paper literature roughly equalling the same weight as the Jefferson Memorial.
On October 12, 1492, the Genoan navigator Crisforo Colombo first reached land in the Western Hemisphere.