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News for Parents

Here we will periodically reference news and commentary involving education, societal trends, and advice to Christian parents. Most articles are from the Wall Street Journal and their education reporters. COME ON IN ...

It's Worse Than You Thought

Public-school education has gone from bad to worse. In the Chicago Public Schools, only 26% of 11th-graders were at grade level in...

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Nov 29, 20211 min read

Watering Down Standards

More cowardly behavior by universities and assaulting academic standards. https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-testing-bait-and-switch-un...

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Nov 25, 20211 min read

The Coddling of American Students

What are we doing in our schools? American education is supposed to be about opening minds but appears not to fill them with much....

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Nov 22, 20211 min read

Pressuring Kids to Get on Social Media

When coaches and club leaders ask kids to be on Instagram or WhatsApp for group scheduling and messaging, they create headaches for...

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Nov 7, 20211 min read

Is College Worth the Cost?

Turns out roughly 1/3 of bachelor's degrees do not have a net positive return on investment. https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-worth-c...

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Nov 6, 20211 min read

Ideological Tyranny

There has been a fever pitch of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) hires in our universities over the last few years. Parents should...

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Oct 21, 20211 min read

The Most Valuable College Majors

Raw dollars shouldn't be the highest criterion in career decisions for a Christian, but its good for parents and students to keep up with...

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Oct 6, 20211 min read

More Bad News for Men In College

Authors Richard Vedder and Braden Colegrove cite reasons why about half of women entering four-year colleges graduate on time, but only...

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Sep 20, 20211 min read

A Burgeoning Engineering Powerhouse

Years of effort and many talented scientists and engineers have worked to turn a "football school" into a burgeoning powerhouse of...

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Sep 14, 20211 min read

What Happened to the Men?

After slipping behind at U.S. college campuses, men now trail women in record numbers. I've observed this personally at AU for at least a...

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Sep 8, 20211 min read

Don't Let Your Kid Become a Couch Potato

China has banned kids from playing online video games during the school week. You don't have to go quite that far to balance gaming and...

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Sep 4, 20211 min read

Out-of-State Student Cashbox

Helps to explain the increasing number of out-of-state students taking my physics courses each year. As expected, it's all about the...

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Aug 31, 20211 min read

Teachers Making a Difference

We all have teachers who've made a difference in our lives, often on their own dime, but sad that so much money for education never gets...

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Aug 28, 20211 min read

Time to Let Them Go Mom

You had 18 years to train them for life success. Continuing to defer adult behavior is counterproductive. College is supposed to mean...

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Aug 22, 20211 min read

A Smart Phone for Your Kids?

Lots of good information for parents pondering the smart phone decision. https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-childs-first-smartphone-a-guid...

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Aug 14, 20211 min read

Vigilance Needed for College Admission

For the upcoming fall semester, AU received more than 30,000 freshmen and transfer applicants, equal to our current ENTIRE enrollment....

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Aug 10, 20211 min read

Mark Zuckerberg Defeated Simone Biles

Parents Alert: It was clear 10 years ago that something new was going off the rails with young people. When people ask me "What is the...

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Aug 6, 20211 min read

Financial implications of Career Choices

Years of tuition increases have made many professional careers a fast way to get buried in debt. Heed the words of Dylan Boigris, a 2016...

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Aug 4, 20211 min read

Obsessing Over Approval

Parent Alert: When being a "U-Tube" star is the most common career aspiration for 8- to 12-year-olds, there is a problem....

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Aug 2, 20211 min read

Cost of the COVID School Shutdowns

Parents: A new McKinsey study examined spring 2021 test results for 1.6 million students in grades 1 through 6 across the U.S., then...

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Jul 29, 20211 min read