November 20, 2014
Despite SROs, walled compounds bring violent intruders on themselves
Please read my essay at The Chattanoogan
Category: Schooling’s decline
October 29, 2014
Tennessee Promise props broken system
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream Gov. Bill Haslam’s giveaway of associate degrees to high school grads seeks to intervene on behalf of a bureaucratic schooling system facing erosion …
October 3, 2014
Local economy implies you have a Plan B as crisis builds
September 23, 2014
Public schooling: Getting out is not enough
By Tammy Drennan I talked with a young lady the other day – 14-years-old – who loves horses and aims to own stables and teach riding, among other things. …
August 21, 2014
Christian families in state schools fight reform, refuse to exit
By David Tulis The alarm among Christians who patronize government-run schools has a clear cause. Common Core, the name of the latest spate of reform, promises further control by …
April 25, 2014
Dad, let’s rediscover the great gift of intellectual hunger
By Tammy Drennan In his excellent autobiography, My Grandfather’s Son, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas talks about discovering the joy of reading for the first time. It wasn’t as …
April 5, 2014
Coming paradigm: Certifying the student, not the institution
By Charles Hugh Smith Every institution defends itself against external analysis by marginalizing or discrediting those who could potentially limit its funding and power. Those few within the institution
March 29, 2014
Administrative bloat, piles of student debt hint colleges a legacy system
By Charles Hugh Smith Once we accredit the student, not the institution, existing universities will compete directly with Nearly Free Universities not in issuing diplomas but in how much …