Category: Education policy

Sacrificing Success on the ‘Altar of Equity’

Commentary Somewhere around the mid-1960s the conventional conservative model of the English grammar school was finally over-turned by a new-age, liberal-progressive intellectual alliance of “progressive educators.” This shift of power and influence to the left led to changes in education that have had enormous effects on the worldview and behavior of recent generations. Traditional teachers…


Grim Future for Our Less Educated Sons

Commentary In his latest book, “The Boy Crisis,” Warren Farrell makes this chilling point. “For the first time in American history, our sons will have less education than their dads.” Farrell explained that when girls were doing badly in maths and science, it was decided that “the trouble was with the schools.” His country tackled…