“…teachers and parents, is your answer to that question—why do I have to learn this stuff—a Christian answer, a biblical answer? And now students, my question for you…. If I can show you that God wants you to learn math or English or history, will that change your attitude toward it?” - Mark Ward
When Reading Declines, Discipleship Suffers
“Though having churches get involved in teaching reading may seem like a new challenge, closing literacy gaps has been a consistent part of the Protestant tradition.” - TGC
More Americans now support than oppose all-day school cellphone bans
“About three-quarters of U.S. adults (77%) support in-class cellphone bans for middle and high school students…. About half of U.S. adults (48%) back ‘bell-to-bell’ school cellphone bans for middle and high school students…43% oppose the idea, while 8% are not sure.” - Pew
Save the Humanities from the Slop
“We need the humanities today to remind us how to be fully human as God designed us, to exercise the gifts God has given us, and to love our neighbor.” - TGC
Turn Toward Each Other and Away from the Screen
“It’s tempting to either give up and stop resisting or veer into full-blown panic about the academic outcomes we’re seeing in many American schools. How are we supposed to prepare our children for a tech-infused future we can’t comprehend? Do we resign ourselves to a post-literate, post-numerate future where machines do all our thinking?” - CToday
The School Tech Situation Is Worse than You Think
“My own children are in seventh and ninth grade now, and they’ve never experienced a single day of school without working on a screen. Yes, even in kindergarten. Yes, even before they could read.” - Gleanings
To Foster Biblical Literacy, Teach People to Read
“Only a familiarity with books of all sorts enables students to pick up on the clues about what an author is doing and how he’s doing it. They need to read—a lot. To foster biblical literacy, we need to foster literacy in general.” - TGC
Why God Came Back (60 Years After Time Magazine Asked ‘Is God Dead?’)
“An analysis of the 2022-2023 Cooperative Election Study, surveying nearly 85,000 Americans, found a positive correlation between education and weekly religious attendance. The rate of attendance rises from 23% among high school graduates to 30% for those with graduate degrees.” - Unherd
How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard
“I tell my students the brain is a lot like a muscle: It takes genuine hard work to see gains. Without challenging that muscle, it won’t grow bigger.” - The Conversation
Is college worth it today?
“A recent study reported in Newsweek found that one in four Gen Z college graduates regret attending university — all the trouble, all the expense, all the debt.” - CPost