Failing an Entire Class

A professor at Texas A&M threatened to fail the entire class of strategic management students. Irwin Horwitz, an instructional associate professor ...

3-Year-Old Karate Kid Knows What She Believes

A viral video shows a three-year-old white belt karate student in the dojo, rigorously reciting the student creed with her instructor. "So little ...

Flunking Exams Actually a … Good Thing?

An article in The New York Times highlights a new classroom learning technique—the "pre-final" test. Students take their final on the ...

School's Test Results Letter an Example of Affirmation

The traditional school system is quite good at many things. But rarely do students receive formal affirmation for anything other than high test results ...

Sparking the Flame of Knowledge

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.

—William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist, 1865–1939

Luther Says Institutions Need Scripture

I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's ...

Cheating on an English Test

Allison Asimakoupoulos writes in Campus Life:

My first grade teacher, Mrs. Ayres, taught me things I needed to know to start school right, including one ...