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March 28 – Homework Doesn’t Do Them Any Good
by John Heaton
So screams the headline of an article (here) summarizing a new study out of Australia. The article affirms what some of us have believed for years: homework - or the amount thereof - is driven by the vicissitudes of parent opinion in the ebb and flow of decades. The longitudinal studies do not ...
March 15 – Wake-Up Calls from Goldman Sachs
by John Heaton
Public Interest - Private Virtue You probably don't know who Greg Smith is, but he just resigned from Goldman Sachs as its executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The issue? Morality. His accusation? Goldman ...
August 8 – Purpose of the School
by John Heaton
Here's a quick thought from David V. Hicks, and his book Norms & Nobility, first published in 1981... "The good school does not just offer what the student or the parent or the state desires, but it says something about what these three ought to desire. A school is fundamentally a ...
Choices
by John Heaton
People who study demographics tell us that one characteristic of younger people - say, under 30 - is the premium they place on having and keeping options. Without going into all the sociological reasons, in practical experience it looks like this: my students don't want to commit to something on ...
Fractured Skill: Contemporary Education’s Aversion to Skillful Thought
by John Heaton
Notes on The Craftsman by Richard Sennett. Yale University Press, 2008 Note 002. 06.17.10 - Fractured Skill: Contemporary Education's Aversion to Skillful Thought We who labor in classical education find ourselves in the odd position of having to defend pedagogies that employ routine and ...