Tag: Common Core

Educational Faddism Then and Now

Commentary Among the many brilliant insights of the great Thomas Sowell is the following gem: “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area—crime, education, housing, race relations—the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories…


We Need to Restore The Traditional Ways of Education: Marilyn Torley

America’s public education has shifted away much from its traditional form in the past two decades, said Marilyn Torley, co-principal of Northern Academy, a private 6–12 school in upstate New York. Torley, an educator with 25 years of experience as a teacher and administrator in New Jersey, said in an interview with NTD’s “Focus Talk”…