You are not just training our nation’s future workers. You are bringing up the future citizens of the United States of America. Your students will, someday soon, collectively decide the fate of this great nation of ours. Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O’Connor (Supreme Civics, 2011) I thought today would be a good day to […]
Courses We Once Knew: The Loss of Geography in a Common Core World
How did you learn about your town, state, country, and the world? What did you learn about the cultures of the people living in those places, the physical characteristics of the land, and all the other skills necessary to understand geography? Are today’s students knowledgeable about their world? Specifically, what happened to geography? While the […]
How Losing the Arts in Public Schools Hurts Students and Their Future Careers
President G.W. Bush loves to paint and has recently gotten recognition for his artwork, but does he know how his administration squelched the arts for millions of public school students, thereby also stifling their chances of a good career in the arts? That’s right. There are jobs in the arts! NCLB included the arts. It […]