The Bravest Man in Education Reform
Robert Pondiscio | Thomas B. Fordham Institute
In seeking to inspire young people, Agency by Ian Rowe (Templeton Press, 2022) also inspires those of us who have set out to nurture and guide them, but who have fallen, morally exhausted, into the foolish and easy comforts of blame and low expectations. Rowe is calling on us to rediscover our own sense of agency and, in doing so, help young people discover theirs.
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Robert Pondiscio | Thomas B. Fordham Institute
In seeking to inspire young people, Agency by Ian Rowe (Templeton Press, 2022) also inspires those of us who have set out to nurture and guide them, but who have fallen, morally exhausted, into the foolish and easy comforts of blame and low expectations. Rowe is calling on us to rediscover our own sense of agency and, in doing so, help young people discover theirs.
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Michael Polanyi's theory of knowledge helps us understand why classical education is such a necessary preparation for engaging the world.
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State level success for school choice
Max Eden et al. | American Enterprise Institute | December 6, 2021
Max Eden et al. | American Enterprise Institute | December 6, 2021
How to Dissent Without Losing Your Career, or Your Republic by Michelle Macander
A new group battling for freedom of thought in education
Frederick M. Hess | Education Week
Higher education just isn’t built for men right now
Naomi Schaefer Riley | Deseret News
Frederick M. Hess | Education Week
Higher education just isn’t built for men right now
Naomi Schaefer Riley | Deseret News
Academic transparency is gaining traction in the states
Max Eden | AEIdeas
Thirteen states have passed legislation or regulations alleging to “ban” critical race theory. But parents need a clear and direct window into school curricula. Schools should publicly post all materials used in the classroom so parents can see — at a glance online — what is being taught.
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Max Eden | AEIdeas
Thirteen states have passed legislation or regulations alleging to “ban” critical race theory. But parents need a clear and direct window into school curricula. Schools should publicly post all materials used in the classroom so parents can see — at a glance online — what is being taught.
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Islamism Is Stunting Turkish Academic Achievement by Burak Bekdil
BESA Center Perspectives
https://www.meforum.org/61993/islamism-is-stunting-turkish-academic-achievement
BESA Center Perspectives
https://www.meforum.org/61993/islamism-is-stunting-turkish-academic-achievement
In Search Of An Education Breakthrough
by Clint Bolick, Kate J. Hardiman via Defining Ideas
Schools need top-to-bottom transformation, and there’s no more time to waste.
by Clint Bolick, Kate J. Hardiman via Defining Ideas
Schools need top-to-bottom transformation, and there’s no more time to waste.
Where conservatives should lead on federal education policy in 2021
Michael Q. McShane | January 2021
Conservatives have an opportunity to play a productive role in federal education policymaking. They have to do more than just say no.
Early childhood education policy should center on family and work to make family life in America easier.
Federal K–12 policy should focus on deregulating existing programs and broadening their eligibility to allow new and different providers to access federal funds.
Higher education policy should diminish the power of existing gatekeepers and open the field for more innovation, with new means of ensuring that dollars are spent well.
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Michael Q. McShane | January 2021
Conservatives have an opportunity to play a productive role in federal education policymaking. They have to do more than just say no.
Early childhood education policy should center on family and work to make family life in America easier.
Federal K–12 policy should focus on deregulating existing programs and broadening their eligibility to allow new and different providers to access federal funds.
Higher education policy should diminish the power of existing gatekeepers and open the field for more innovation, with new means of ensuring that dollars are spent well.
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Interactive map: State-level performance of K–12 public schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia
Katharine B. Stevens | American Enterprise Institute
This map provides state-level information on eighth-grade reading and math achievement, achievement gaps, and per-student spending.
Katharine B. Stevens | American Enterprise Institute
This map provides state-level information on eighth-grade reading and math achievement, achievement gaps, and per-student spending.
Hoover Institution Press Publishes Unshackled: Freeing America's K-12 Education System
via Hoover Daily Report
The Hoover Institution Press has published Unshackled: Freeing America’s K–12 Education System by Research Fellow Clint Bolick and Kate J. Hardiman , a former teacher and advocate for educational change. HOOVER
via Hoover Daily Report
The Hoover Institution Press has published Unshackled: Freeing America’s K–12 Education System by Research Fellow Clint Bolick and Kate J. Hardiman , a former teacher and advocate for educational change. HOOVER
Why it’s so lonely at the top
Arthur C. Brooks | The Atlantic
It can be lonely at the top. But loneliness is not a necessary condition of success any more than unpaid taxes are a condition of making a lot of money. It is just a cost one must face honestly and manage.
Arthur C. Brooks | The Atlantic
It can be lonely at the top. But loneliness is not a necessary condition of success any more than unpaid taxes are a condition of making a lot of money. It is just a cost one must face honestly and manage.
4 rules for identifying your life’s work
Arthur C. Brooks | The Atlantic
Graduation is a leap into uncertainty even during ordinary times, and COVID-19 times are far from ordinary. Arthur Brooks' advice to all graduates remains the same as it would have been without a pandemic: Find your marshmallow.
Arthur C. Brooks | The Atlantic
Graduation is a leap into uncertainty even during ordinary times, and COVID-19 times are far from ordinary. Arthur Brooks' advice to all graduates remains the same as it would have been without a pandemic: Find your marshmallow.
A Punitive and Senseless Education-Funding Proposal – Max Eden, Manhattan Institute
Bailing Out the Academic Fleet?
by David DeavelMany of us who work in higher education are aware that we are working on boats that are not only “academically adrift," but which have been leaking furiously for years. Given the demographics and the broader economic devastation wrought by our foolish response to the Coronavirus, it is unlikely that even a bailout will allow for much more than the playing of a song as the academic ships sink... [MORE]
by David DeavelMany of us who work in higher education are aware that we are working on boats that are not only “academically adrift," but which have been leaking furiously for years. Given the demographics and the broader economic devastation wrought by our foolish response to the Coronavirus, it is unlikely that even a bailout will allow for much more than the playing of a song as the academic ships sink... [MORE]
Academic Descent
Two books survey how the university came to prize ideology over ideas.
Two books survey how the university came to prize ideology over ideas.
Finally getting serious about professional military education
(War On The Rocks) Two years ago, much of the professional military education community was startled by the National Defense Strategy’s declaration that its wares had stagnated and that the community had lost focus on lethality and ingenuity.
(War On The Rocks) Two years ago, much of the professional military education community was startled by the National Defense Strategy’s declaration that its wares had stagnated and that the community had lost focus on lethality and ingenuity.
Dr. Sian Beilock, an expert on performance and brain science, reveals in Choke the astonishing new science of why we all too often blunder when the stakes are high. What happens in our brain and body when we experience the dreaded performance anxiety? And what are we doing differently when everything magically "clicks" into place and the perfect golf swing, tricky test problem, or high-pressure business pitch becomes easy? In an energetic tour of the latest brain science, with surprising insights on every page, Beilock explains the inescapable links between body and mind; reveals the surprising similarities among the ways performers, students, athletes, and business people choke; and shows how to succeed brilliantly when it matters most.
In lively prose and accessibly rendered science, Beilock examines how attention and working memory guide human performance, how experience and practice and brain development interact to create our abilities, and how stress affects all these factors. She sheds new light on counter-intuitive realities, like why the highest-performing people are most susceptible to choking under pressure, why we may learn foreign languages best when we’re not paying attention, why early childhood athletic training can backfire, and how our emotions can make us both smarter and dumber. All these fascinating findings about academic, athletic, and creative intelligence come together in Beilock's new ideas about performance under pressure—and her secrets to never choking again.
In lively prose and accessibly rendered science, Beilock examines how attention and working memory guide human performance, how experience and practice and brain development interact to create our abilities, and how stress affects all these factors. She sheds new light on counter-intuitive realities, like why the highest-performing people are most susceptible to choking under pressure, why we may learn foreign languages best when we’re not paying attention, why early childhood athletic training can backfire, and how our emotions can make us both smarter and dumber. All these fascinating findings about academic, athletic, and creative intelligence come together in Beilock's new ideas about performance under pressure—and her secrets to never choking again.
The Catholic School in the Pluralist Polis
By Thaddeus Kozinski on Jun 20, 2020 03:59 pm
A traditional liberal arts curriculum elevates the tastes, ennobles the sentiments, and orders the mind to truth: Socratic questioning forces critical reflection on the content and coherency of one’s ideas; a vigorous and integrated life of grace and prayer keeps the mind and heart strong, pure, integrated, and focused on Jesus Christ. Yet to ...
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By Thaddeus Kozinski on Jun 20, 2020 03:59 pm
A traditional liberal arts curriculum elevates the tastes, ennobles the sentiments, and orders the mind to truth: Socratic questioning forces critical reflection on the content and coherency of one’s ideas; a vigorous and integrated life of grace and prayer keeps the mind and heart strong, pure, integrated, and focused on Jesus Christ. Yet to ...
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By what standards do we distinguish real growth from regression, real freedom from veiled enslavement? Read More »
Are You an Ultralearner?
By Joe Byerly, From the Green Notebook: "I recently finished Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott H. Young. This is an interesting read and in many respects can serve as the self-development bible for those addicted to learning."
By Joe Byerly, From the Green Notebook: "I recently finished Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott H. Young. This is an interesting read and in many respects can serve as the self-development bible for those addicted to learning."
Workforce of tomorrow: How early childcare shapes adult employment
Brent Orrell and Katharine B. Stevens | "Hardly Working"
Brent Orrell and Katharine B. Stevens | "Hardly Working"
Training to Thrive in a Toxic National Security Profession by Tammy S. Schultz
Cult of the Irrelevant
By Jessica D. Blankshain, Strategy Bridge: "The Beltway and the Ivory Tower—these two colloquialisms evoke images of secluded elites, cut off from reality, focused on their own narrow interests. In the first case, policymakers and politicians in Washington, D.C. are portrayed as suits interested only in what happens within the confines of the highway circling the city. In the latter, we envision elbow-patched professors on secluded college campuses pondering theory for the sake of theory, unconcerned with real-world applications."
By Jessica D. Blankshain, Strategy Bridge: "The Beltway and the Ivory Tower—these two colloquialisms evoke images of secluded elites, cut off from reality, focused on their own narrow interests. In the first case, policymakers and politicians in Washington, D.C. are portrayed as suits interested only in what happens within the confines of the highway circling the city. In the latter, we envision elbow-patched professors on secluded college campuses pondering theory for the sake of theory, unconcerned with real-world applications."
Book Review Roundtable: Cult of the Irrelevant
by Bridget Coggins, Peter Dombrowski, John H. Maurer, and Galen Jackson
by Bridget Coggins, Peter Dombrowski, John H. Maurer, and Galen Jackson
The Largest Defense Companies on the Globe, Revealed
By Jill Aitoro, Defense News: “So who’s up and who’s down for 2018, based on 2017 defense revenue?”
By Jill Aitoro, Defense News: “So who’s up and who’s down for 2018, based on 2017 defense revenue?”
Global Ranking of Think Tanks Internationally From University of Pennsylvania
Global Report on Ranking: PDF file
http://gotothinktank.com/dev1/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/GoToReport2013.pdf
Links to Think Tanks
Global Report on Ranking: PDF file
http://gotothinktank.com/dev1/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/GoToReport2013.pdf
Links to Think Tanks
The Defense News Top 100 list is in
(Defense News) Find out who's on top in the 2018 list, and who didn't make it this year.
(Defense News) Find out who's on top in the 2018 list, and who didn't make it this year.