Last night, after a quick card game with my two sons (ages 9 and 7), we settled in for what is my favorite time of the whole day: when I read aloud to them. Although I also enjoy reading picture books to my younger boys (ages 4...
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Two posts got me thinking about the value of public schools. First was the release of a more...
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This is part of the periodic series You Should Read This on books worth reading. Catholic moral...
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This past weekend I was at the conference “The Idea of a Catholic College: Charism, Curricula, and...
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Religious colleges “systematically undermine the most fundamental purposes of higher education.”...
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My seven year old son hung his head low as he walked off of the baseball diamond after his game. ...
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This post is co-authored with Christopher McMahon. The cost of colleges has been going up. This...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal ran dueling op-eds last week marking the 50th anniversary of Johnson’s “War on Poverty.” In “Building on the Success of the War on Poverty,” Senator Cory Booker laments a...
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So much of what Paul Tough discusses in How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden...
Read MoreI’ve been on the search for a school for my soon-to-be-school age kids in recent weeks. Kindergarten, I have come to find out (as have many parents before me), is not at all like what I did when I was five. There are no...
Read MoreWhile there are lots of factors that go into successful education, the recent study from the Center for Public Education notes the importance of parents. Not surprisingly, parental involvement helps students do better in...
Read MoreTwo institutions that have been in the hot seat since the start of the recession are health care and education. Both have out-of-control costs, with comparatively very little to show for those costs, making them targets of...
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