by Richard Schulman US education was in crisis before the Covid-19 pandemic; now it is worse. Progressives love to play the race card against Republicans on every occasion, but in the real world, especially the world of education, it is the progressives to whom that inflammatory accusation best applies. K-12 public education in Democrat-controlled cities […]
Time for a major rethink of education and arts policies
by Richard Schulman It’s time for a major rethink of education and arts policies. We’re hardly the first to recognize the new possibilities catalyzed by the coronavirus pandemic. But this may be the first time that four topics usually thought of separately have been tied together: Education US STEM backwardness The arts The US Education […]
Progressives’ malign influence on education
by Richard Schulman The 100-page New York Times Magazine special, “The 1619 Project,” is the latest example of Progressives’ malign influence on education. Progressives are Leftists who dislike the Constitution, bipartisanship, and a delimited national state — regarding these as obstacles to utopian schemes such as the Green New Deal and to defining citizens by […]
$750 mn. donation to Caltech likely harmful
by Richard Schulman Sometimes guilt leads to great benefactions, as in the case of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. California Institute of Technology (“Caltech”), we fear, has not been so lucky. Yesterday one of its trustees, billionaire Stewart Resnick, and his wife Lynda, pledged $750 mn. to Caltech with some very burdensome environmentalist strings attached. […]
Why John and Jill can’t major in science
In a previous Founders Broadsheet we addressed the question of why so many US students were never properly taught how to read, crippling their lifelong academic and intellectual development. An even larger number of US high school graduates– perhaps more than 95 percent — never receive an adequate mathematics education during their kindergarten-through-12th (K-12) grade […]
