The Wound Is in the Living Room
We medicate children rather than transforming homes. This essay explores how parenting, trauma, and emotional maturity are the roots of New Zealand’s education failures.
Education
Schools Are Making Kids Crazy
Politicians, psychiatrists, and public schools are the last places to trust to safeguard mental health. Young Americans are already suffering from a downward politico-psychological spiral thanks to decades of abusive, repressive policies.
Stanford’s Underwhelming Response to a Key Question
Stanford might be better than Hipkins and Tinetti, but that is a VERY low bar.
Is the Parenting to Blame for This?
It’s difficult not to wonder just how much harm this Millennial parenting might be doing.
Schools Are Passing Students but Failing Them
Even with record-high per-student spending, the broken status quo has left one in five Americans functionally illiterate. Schools refuse to reform.
School Apologises to Student for Excluding Speech
FSU staff will now provide training at the school on best practice guidance on freedom of speech in an educational setting.
We Still Need More to Keep Kids Safe
Australia will get a register to track educators and CCTV trial in centres, but these latest proposals don’t address the root causes of problems in the early childhood. Instead they work within the boundaries of what we already have.
The Place of Faith, Purpose and Culture in Education Success
Wealth is clearly an advantageous aspect for many of the top performing schools but there are others, including having faith/purpose based foundations.
Free Speech and Jewish Safety on Campus Are Not Incompatible
It’s time universities take Columbia’s lead and act like it.
Yet More Reason Not to Trust ‘Childcare’
More predators uncovered in schools and childcare centres.
Of Manners, Explorers and the Thirst for Knowledge
The public lecture as mass entertainment.
