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What is the Socratic method? Could it be used to test students in an age of AI?
And can it ask the right questions? This is the philosophical method at the heart of the work of the Ancient Greek philosopher, Plato.
I home schooled my children till 16 — all four got into Oxbridge
This week my son Xavier will start his first term at Oxford University studying maths, my fourth child to get into Oxbridge. His older sisters, Olivia and Felicity, are Oxford graduates in classics and music respectively and his older brother, Max, has a degree in engineering from Cambridge. Two of them had choral scholarships; two had academic scholarships.
When It Comes To Choosing Schools, Families Are Mixing It Up
A New Study On Sector Mixing And Homeschooling
Bessent Advances Divisive $26 Billion School Tax Credit Plan
The program, dubbed the Education Freedom Tax Credit, allows individual taxpayers to direct up to $1,700 of their annual federal tax bill to nonprofits that grant scholarships to students to pay for qualified educational expenses.
School-Choice Tax Credit Gets Big Boost From Treasury
Married couples can donate double, making tax break worth $3,400, not $1,700
Not All ‘Classical’ Schools Are Created Equal
The most consequential differences are often the least obvious.
How Classical Christian Education Can Save America
David Godwin’s new book ‘Forging the American Mind,’ ably explains how faith, virtue, and excellence can be the heart of K-12 education.
The Road To Recovering American Education Runs Through Excellent Teacher Training Like This
If more schools invest in teachers with training like this, America’s K-12 future will look brighter than the latest numbers suggest.
I’ve Gone Back to Fourth Grade
The problem is broader than a single generation. Most podcasts I find unlistenable simply because whatever language the hosts are speaking is not English. It’s something else entirely and barely coherent. My complaints are not traceable to some kind of grammatical snobbery. There is much more at stake here: the very capacity of humanity to communicate.
Toward a Renaissance of American Jewish Education
n his commentary on the Talmud — a body of Jewish learning that represents one of the greatest models of cultural preservation in the history of mankind — the medieval philosopher Moses Maimonides pointed to the rabbinic idea that "the world is sustained only by the breath of schoolchildren." His insight is a deep one: that the fate of every civilization depends, over the long term, on the work of perpetuation and transmission.
Inside the Unconventional College That Blends Classical Building Trades With Liberal Arts Education
Students at Charleston’s American College of the Building Arts are finding hope for a stable future in mastering crafts like blacksmithing and architectural carpentry.
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