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Column: Common curriculum would boost national unity Patricia Smith While there is consensus that our country is deeply divided, there is confusion about the causes. E.D. Hirsch offers an explanation in his new book "How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation."  He points out that democratic republics such as ours are fragile, often collapsing because of citizens’ varying politics, religions and ethnic backgrounds. Being aware of these natural antagonisms, our forefathers and early educators realized the importance of common schooling, especially early school...

When we send our children to school, we expect that they'll learn how to read and write, to understand how the natural world works and how to measure things. Not as widely considered, but perhaps equally important is the idea of ‘cultural capital’.

Dear Community Members: The Racine Unified School District is considering launching a new charter school, the Racine Scholars Academy, in 2021. Fifty-two years ago, Racine was selected to be part of the largest experiment in the history of education. Already seeing gains from the fast-growing Head Start program, educational leaders in the War on Poverty, proposed a massive experiment into what educational strategies worked best in grades K-3. Ten different approaches were identified to address the needs of the “culturally disadvantaged.” Each model had 4-8 sites, with control groups...

LAKE LURE — In a vote cast by her fellow educators, Lake Lure Classical Academy recently celebrated Nancy Sarratt as its 2020-2021 Teacher of the Year. Sarratt has been with the school since its 2010 inception. She taught second grade for nine years and is currently in her second year teaching fifth grade. She came out of retirement to join the teaching team at LLCA. She and her family were recently invited to a socially-distanced reception in the school gymnasium surrounded by her fellow educators. Due to the wide-ranging impacts of COVID-19 on schools, the recognition and celebration o...

Because every child needs phonics. we also need core knowledge. i think people have underestimated how important it is to have foundational knowledge in order to read. you have to know something to learn something. and if you take out history and science out of the school system, you're going to disadvantage kids. >> but you're also taking the best and the brightest, those who you don't take, those who are at the bottom, what are they left with? because they're spending trillions of dollars on education in this country and still we're failing so many kids. >> we spend more money in this countr...