Archives for Education
Education Information: School choice vouchers
Not everyone has a choice when it comes to selecting the right schools for their children. Financial and regional considerations prevent some parents from having school choices. Public schools no…
History and American education today
The education system in America An inside look at the education system in America. Just how well do our schools do at teaching history, and just what are our kids…
Student discipline: is suspension the answer?
Is student discipline as simple as suspension? What alternative solutions are there to the problem of misbehaving students? In the midst of escalating violence in our schools, many adults are…
High school reform
This piece provides a view of the areas of the American high school system that need to be reformed in order to achieve improvement. It seems as though any time…
John Dewey – My Pedagogic Creed
John Dewey's famous declaration concerning education. First published in The School Journal, Volume LIV, Number 3 (January 16, 1897), pages 77-80. ARTICLE I--What Education Is I believe that all education…
The Pedagogic Challenges of the Future
Authors: Lt Col Schunck and Maj L. Nielsson It is evident that new opportunities offered to people as described in the “Paradigm of tomorrow” require an effort from each one…
The necessity of education and the importance of maintaining pedagogics as an independent discipline
Contents: Introduction 1. Philosophical anthropology and pedagogics 2. Pedagogics in an era of (post)modern developments 3. What is 'modern youth'? 4. Once again: what is education? 5. A renewed appeal…
Education of national minorities in Lithuania
Nearly all over the world humanism, democracy and civil society are recognized ideals. Powerful and independent state rests on them. Trying to assure that these ideals are met the determinant…
Article on stopping school violence
Understanding why our children/students are resorting to physical violence in school and finding ways to stop the violence and learn to heal. Forty years ago the biggest problems in the…
Library impact on children
Take your child to the library for books. What age is a good age to teach them how to find books & teaching them how to act there. The library…
Albert Einstein – Religion and Science
The following article by Albert Einstein appeared in the New York Times Magazine on November 9, 1930 pp 1-4. It has been reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, Crown Publishers, Inc.…