Tag Archives: Education

And a little child shall lead them?

On a New Jersey school district’s summer reading list for middle and high school: one book depicting lesbian statutory rape, and another depicting a drug-fueled homosexual orgy. How did that happen? Call it the record-setting worst excuse ever for a bad policy! Chuck Earling, superintendent of Monroe Township Schools in Williamstown, N.J., told Fox News …

September 6, 2011 – 7:21 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged , , , | Comments (4)

“A Texas-Sized Defeat for ‘Western Civilization’”

My college friend Rob Koons was putting together a concentration on “Western Civilization and American Institutions” at the University of Texas, but he got the plugged pulled on him in a manner that was not only unceremonious but also confused, contradictory, and educationally unwise. He learned some lessons from the experience, including: Our program was rightly …

August 7, 2009 – 5:25 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (6)

Spirituality Without Religion

The LA Times is reporting on a “Spirituality for Kids” curriculum being presented in some Los Angeles public schools.   ‘Spirituality for Kids’ is not religious,” said Karen Timko, who is in charge of elementary counselors for the Los Angeles Unified School District and has included the group in a resource fair for counselors. “It’s tools …

April 14, 2009 – 6:00 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , | Comments (10)

“Is It Time to Retrain Business Schools?”

NY TImes: Is It Time to Retrain Business Schools? Still, there have been signs that all is not well in business education. A study of cheating among graduate students, published in 2006 in the journal Academy of Management Learning & Education, found that 56 percent of all M.B.A. students cheated regularly — more than in …

March 14, 2009 – 9:23 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Ideas have nothing to do with reality?

It’s amazing to see this [Link: World On the Web » World New Media Archive » Ideas have nothing to do with reality] … Teachers cannot – except serendipitously – fashion moral character or produce citizens of a certain temper. … showing up on the web so soon after the article I discussed in my …

August 19, 2008 – 1:30 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged , | Comments Off

Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices – New York Times

This reminds me of so many other untested beliefs. Parents and teachers have been of the opinion lately that students will understand math better using real-world objects to illustrate abstract concepts. Research now suggests this is wrong. “The motivation behind this research was to examine a very widespread belief about the teaching of mathematics, namely …

April 26, 2008 – 6:11 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (2)