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Say No to School Daze: Planning and Preparing for the Coming Academic Year “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy:” that line from George Gershwin’s opera “Porky and Bess” might serve as the motto for many schoolchildren. No homework for a couple of months, no tests and grades, no racing around in the morning throwing books into a backpack and looking for that lost assignment: the summers of my childhood meant freedom from everything except household chores, and I hope any youngsters reading my words are enjoying similar liberties. Parents, however, might consider a different approac...

The university’s classics department has ceased requiring its students to know Latin and Greek.

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AUSTIN, TX-- The Heritage Foundation presented Dr. Robert Jackson with its 2021 Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship during the organization’s annual Resource Bank meeting this week in honor of his significant work to protect and advance American values through education by teaching and promoting the use of classical education in the classroom. 

The Academic Abuse of Quantity Over Quality One of the most profound problems in the field of education is that it has become too superficial. With efficiency preoccupations to “cover” as many “core” subjects as possible and equip young minds with the data of a rapidly-changing, money-driven world, skimming the surface of things through fast-moving textbooks, condensed texts, abridged works, PowerPoints interfaces, and soundbites has become something of an epidemic. The mentality has become more about sailing through the mandated material, checking the boxes, imparting the facts, and ...