Education

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Digital multitasking: scourge or blessing?

Anya Kamenetz | 22 May 2013 |

tags: education, multitasking, social media

How can we teach students to focus on what they ought to be doing?

The value of a liberal-arts education

Jill Tiefenthaler | 09 May 2013 |

tags: education, liberal arts

Colleges must prepare young people to think with rigour and creativity rather than just train them for a job.

Portrait of a forceful thinker

Jorge Bergoglio | 15 March 2013 |

tags: education, euthanasia, religion, same-sex marriage

Almost nothing by the new Pope is available in English -- apart from these snippets from his latest book.

The internet is a paradise for cheaters

Karl D. Stephan | 30 January 2013 |

tags: cheating, education, morality

Universities have to work hard to discourage students from cheating.

Wicca, Raelism, Animism, Christianity…

Barbara Kay | 13 December 2012 |

tags: education, Quebec, religious freedom

All must be accorded absolute respect, according to a draconian mandate from Quebec's education junta.

How education hijacked brain research

Max Coltheart | 11 December 2012 |

tags: education, neuroscience

Some governments and schools are considering high-cost brain training programs despite a lack of evidence of any educational benefits.

Won’t Back Down

Denyse O'Leary | 11 October 2012 |

tags: education, film reviews, USA

This inspiring film about America's failing schools has a radical diagnosis: shake off the dead hand of the teachers' unions.

Neo vs. the Karate Kid

Micah Watson | 10 July 2012 |

tags: education, film reviews

The Matrix and The Karate Kid offer two competing views of the relationship between how we learn and how we understand human nature.

eU: education goes online

David Glance | 02 July 2012 |

tags: education, information technology, online education

Some of America's best-known universities are trying to leverage their prestige by offering on-line course by leading academics.

Canada’s intransigent secularists

Rebekah Hebbert | 23 February 2012 |

tags: Canada, education, religious freedom

If Canadian parents are forced to send their children to objectionable classes, should it be a surprise if some of them secede from the school system?

The Norway massacre: what it reveals about a bullying programme

Izzy Kalman | 03 September 2011 |

tags: bullying, education, US

Why does an anti-bullying programme work in Scandinavia and not in America?

The quest to re-moralise the modern university

Steven Schwartz | 05 August 2011 |

tags: education, universities

Even in the age of greed is good, the fundamental job of universities is to produce “capable and cultivated human beings”.

Another coffin nail for US public education

Kevin Ryan | 11 July 2011 |

tags: California, education, homosexuality

California's new gay-friendly curriculum raises questions about the future of government-run schools.

An appeal to Generation Y

Alan Sears | 29 June 2011 |

tags: education, same-sex marriage

The rising generation's lack of interest in philosophy and history makes them vulnerable to the sophistry of same-sex marriage.

Yale and the Nanny State

Kevin Ryan | 24 May 2011 |

tags: education, sexism, Yale

Why has the Federal Government become involved in disciplining frat boy wannabees?

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