Bruce Deitrick Price – Herewith a quick review of what it arguably one of the most destructive excesses of the past fifty years.
Constructivism, a monster fad from the 1980s until quite recently, states that learners must be active in constructing their own meanings.
Their own meanings? What could that possibly mean? Anything, apparently. Depends on which meanings a student constructs. Two plus three might equal 6 or 8 or 10. Continue reading
Newsmax – A conservative education activist has decried the author of the 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, for saying parents shouldn’t have a say in their children’s education.
Ian Prior, executive director of Fight for Schools, said that K-12 education is “based on the concept that parents and teachers work together for the education of the student,” according to the Washington Examiner.
“The idea that parents shouldn’t have a role in that process is anathema to our systems of education and government,” he added. Continue reading