An excerpt from Nate Noorlander’s recent article on Bookshark’s blog, published 1 August, 2024: Students seem to like writing as much as adults like public speaking: It’s almost universally dreaded. But there are few assignments that can tell us as much about how well a student can think. Can they stay organized? Can they communicate […]
An excerpt from Nate Noorlander’s EducationWeek article, published 12 July, 2024: You can read this essay in a number of ways. You might skim it and forget it—the fate of most internet content. Or you might take it seriously, consider it against your own intuition and experience, and note points of agreement and disagreement. From a […]
I was once in a faculty meeting to decide on a coherent school smartphone policy. We were in the drama room on the stage of a kind of amphitheater, sixty of us sitting across from each other in a large circle. You could tell the teachers apart by the way they dressed and who they […]
A famous study from 1999 by Lawrence M. Rudner surveyed nearly 21,000 homeschooled students and found that their median test scores were typically in the 70th to 80th percentiles, and that 25% of homeschooled students were enrolled in a grade level that was higher than their public school counterparts. This study was widely cited by […]
We regularly get questions about the slant of our history courses; these questions often boil down to a similar fundamental concern: How far have our courses been captured by one side or the other in the American culture wars? Do we have a partisan approach that unjustly celebrates, or, conversely, unjustly denigrates the “American story”?
If you’ve been to one of our in-person or online sessions on teaching history, you may have heard us talk about the value of knowing the past for understanding and making informed judgments about the present. While this prerequisite is not new, and our articulation of it is not original, it is a prerequisite that is worth emphasizing—and doing so often.
In college I had a history teacher who didn’t teach us history. Instead he gave us two texts—A Patriot’s History by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, and A People’s History by Howard Zinn—and assigned us to read excerpts on overlapping time periods from both. That was our education in the “content” side of American history, or the “who, what, where, when, and how” of the story.
History is a good place to learn how to be skeptical in a good way. The distinction between “good” skepticism and other kinds of skepticism comes out in the following lines from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on “Ancient Skepticism”: Suspension is a core element of skepticism: the skeptic suspends judgment. However, if this […]
*NB: Access the student guide using the link after the article. In George Orwell’s 1984, the hero, Winston Smith, gets tortured and indoctrinated by a member of the Inner Party. Here’s an excerpt from that scene (name of Inner Party member replaced with “IPM” to avoid spoilers!): “There is a party slogan dealing with the […]
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