Tag: Intelligence

• Education in America – Part Three

  

  Part 3: From Reading and Arithmetic to Therapy and Activism  There was a time when the purpose of a school could be stated without embarrassment. Children were sent there to learn to read, to write, to count, to know something of the world that existed before they arrived, and to acquire habits of mind that would serve them when novelty had…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  March 12, 2026

  Education, History, On Family, politics

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• The Role of Parents in Education: The Supreme Court’s Stand

  

  The recent divide between the leaders of America’s two largest teachers’ unions over the Supreme Court’s ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor is as revealing as it is unsurprising. One laments the Court’s decision as a betrayal of professional expertise, while the other somewhat unexpectedly acknowledges the rightful place of parents in the educational process. And…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  June 30, 2025

  Education, On Faith, On Family, politics

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