Tag: Success

• Education in America – Part One 

  

  The Real Crisis in American Education Is Not Money, but Mission   Ask most parents what school is for, and the answer is usually plain enough. A school exists to teach children to read with understanding, write with clarity, reckon with numbers, know something of history and science, and grow into adults capable of sound judgment. That…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  March 10, 2026

  Education, On Family, politics

  chaos, children, Education, Learning, politics, School, Success, teachers, teaching

• The Rise and Fall of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School

  

  Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, established in 1870 in Washington, D.C., was once a beacon of African American academic achievement. Named after the renowned poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the school was created to offer educational opportunities to Black students during an era of pervasive segregation and racial discrimination. Over the course of the 20th century,…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  November 18, 2024

  Education

  Education, High School, History, Learning, poetry, politics, Rising, School, Success, Thomas Sowell, Washington D.C.