November 3, 2024

Civic education in schools is needed now more than ever

While progressive educators claim that they are developing new methodologies to prepare young people for the 21st century, there remains one vital area where students are woefully behind: civics. As a result, the U.S. population lacks basic knowle...

September 8, 2024

Of Course There Is a Place for the Bible in the Classroom

Oklahoma Superintendent of Schools Ryan Walters has been criticized for mandating that the Bible and Ten Commandments be integrated into the state’s 5th through 12th grade curriculum. Much of the criticism stems from Walters’s perceived c...

August 13, 2024

The Cult of Kindness: ‘Christianity Without Tears’

While sitting through my son’s recent graduation from elementary school I could not help but feel I was at a religious ceremony. Those who led the ceremony did not describe to parents any concrete academic skills that students had learned in th...

October 4, 2023

Why We Must Always Ask Why

Like many idealistic young teachers, my main goal when I started teaching over 20 years ago in a Catholic school in the Boston area was to instill in my students a healthy skepticism about what they were learning and why they were learning it; I surm...

July 29, 2023

Standing with Ukraine...or with Biden's Militarism?

Traveling through liberal New England this summer, one still sees numerous Ukrainian flags flying from homes and businesses.  Some creative residents have even painted their mailboxes in the now famous blue and yellow of the West's favo...

July 12, 2023

It’s Time to Bring Back “Reading, ‘Riting, and 'Rithmetic

Over the past two decades the classroom has been hijacked by an army of ideologues trumpeting empty slogans like “mindfulness,” “caring”, and “celebrating diversity.” Combined with recent “diversity, equity a...