education

Homeschooling: a learning experience for the whole family

Mary Cooney | 26 August 2008 | comment 6

It was a lot harder than I imagined, but the reasons for educating our children at home were compelling.

What if there were no keyboards?

Joanna Bogle | 01 August 2008 | comment 16

By typing everything we lose vital skills. And the issue isn’t just computers, but all related technology.

A trip too far

Michelle Martin | 10 July 2008 | comment 5

As the school year fills up with treats, a mother wonders where the neighbourhood cleanup and nursing home visit fit in.

Correctly squelched

Margaret Somerville | 01 July 2008 | comment 36

A first-person account of manning the barricades against political correctness.

Collapsed schools: a preventable tragedy

Carolyn Moynihan | 31 May 2008 | comment 3

Authorities who allow the building of death-trap schools deserve the political lynching that’s coming to them.

My secret life as a revolutionary

Michael Cook | 30 April 2008 | comment 6

A Harvard education in the glory days of the Revolution included practical lessons in the Struggle.

“Drive the cop out of your head”

Michael Shanks | 29 April 2008 | comment 4

Forty years ago rioting students filled Paris with revolutionary graffiti. Was it all just a bad dream? 

The hidden costs of coeducation

Andrew Mullins | 13 March 2008 | comment 8

With boys’ scores dropping further and further, it’s time to try something new.

Sheer silliness about British schools

Joanna Bogle | 29 February 2008 | comment 24

An MP has called for an investigation into schools which teach subversive notions like lifelong marriage.

General knowledge

Eric Kathenya | 15 February 2008 | comment 11

No, not a military strongman, but the stuff of an intellectual coup for the students in a regional African quiz show.

A case of ingratitude

Nwachukwu Egbunike | 07 February 2008 | comment 8

The recent protest against the pope at a Roman university looks to an African like biting the hand that fed you.

The Homers got it right: a futuristic fantasy

Kevin Ryan | 21 December 2007 | comment 15

Who would revive society if everything collapsed? Homeschoolers, says a prominent educationalist. 

Nobel Lecture: On those who do not win prizes

Doris Lessing | 20 December 2007 | comment 9

Reading books used to be part of general education, says Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing. Perhaps we need to learn that again -- from Africa.

Will video games save American education?

John Bambenek | 13 September 2007 | comment 11

On-line games are being sold to teachers as a way to save the economy by revitalising the classroom. Hmmm.

No way to raise a boy

Kevin Ryan | 03 August 2007 | comment 24

Do boys have to be bored, fat and dumber than their sisters?

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