Education
An Idea For Intectually Stimulating College Journalism
Premise
Do you remember your college newspaper? Where its pages often filled with thought provoking articles by serious student journalists and in-depth analysis pieces on community goings-on or cultural values, social standards, sexual mores, etc?
Or were the pages of your college newspaper (or other college papers you’ve seen) filled with the banal, the bestial, and the [...]
Thoughts On Genuine Educational Reform
There is no doubt among reasonable Americans today that education reform is one of the most serious challenges facing our nation as it enters the 21st century.
As the United States adjusts to the rise of new global powers like India, we will have to develop new ways to raise successful children and provide a public [...]
Archbishop Wood’s Newspapers, Digitized
As a high schooler at Archbishop Wood in Warminster, Pa I was involved with the school newspaper, The Viking Voice. I wrote stories, edited copy, learned to digitally paginate using QuarkXPress and eventually served as editor-in-chief during my senior year (2004-5). It was an immensely worthwhile pursuit and the experience I gained in high school [...]
Jeffrey Hart Asks, ‘What Is A College Education?’
Jeffrey Hart, professor emeritus of English, author, mentor and conservative thinker at Dartmouth, asked the question “What is a College Education?” in 1998 in The Dartmouth Review, that university’s leading journal of conservative-libertarian thought.
I found Hart’s arguments for a liberal and character-forming collegiate experience to be particularly compelling in contrast to the alternative view of [...]
