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Education

Why Haven’t There Been Any Evangelicals on the Supreme Court?

By Filings on Thu, 03/24/22
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“The lack of evangelicals on the Supreme Court is partly a supply issue. While evangelicals make up a quarter of the American population, Crane found that they’re just 7 percent of the student body at the country’s top law schools.” - C.Today

“There’s much that glorifies God in the world around us—and beyond it.”

By Filings on Fri, 03/04/22
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“… glorifying God calls for a wide variety of people, skills, and knowledge sets. The world is a better place because I’m not an electrician just as certainly as it’s a better place because good electricians exist.” - Olinger

STEM and sex differences in occupational preference: some differences are universal

By Filings on Tue, 02/01/22
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“…we analyzed the occupational aspirations of nearly half a million 15- and 16-year-olds across 80 developing and developed nations that participated in the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) of mathematics, science, and reading competencies.” - IFS

When It’s Parents Versus Teachers, Kids Lose

By Filings on Thu, 12/02/21
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“Children and teenagers are most likely to thrive when parents and teachers are in alliance. But that alliance is breaking down. Sometimes, that’s because the parents deliberately undermine and oppose the teacher…Other times it’s because the child has a psychiatric diagnosis.” - IFS

Among many U.S. children, reading for fun has become less common, federal data shows

By Filings on Mon, 11/15/21
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“The shares of American 9- and 13-year-olds who say they read for fun on an almost daily basis have dropped from nearly a decade ago and are at the lowest levels since at least the mid-1980s” - Pew

A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’

By Filings on Sat, 09/25/21
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“The number of men enrolled at two- and four-year colleges has fallen behind women by record levels, in a widening education gap across the U.S.” - WSJ

Why the Church Has Such a Long History of Leading in Education

By Filings on Fri, 09/24/21
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“Education doesn’t make sense in a worldview that is only about survival. … But with a worldview that says that the world itself came from a first cause that is intelligent, reasonable, knowable, and … wants to be known, there is solid grounding for actual knowledge, and therefore education.” - Breakpoint

Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union Rejects Anti-Israel Resolution

By Filings on Tue, 07/06/21
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The rejected resolution “used language that legitimized Palestinian terrorism as a ‘heroic struggle’ in the fight to combat alleged Israeli ‘military repression’ and ‘ethnic cleansing.’ It also urged the NEA to ‘publicize its support for the Palestinian struggle for justice and call on the United States government to stop arming and supporting Israel.’” - National Review

State Court Rules Christian-College Professors Are Not Ministers

By Filings on Wed, 03/17/21
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“The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that while Gordon College is a religious college, an associate professor of social work at the school is “not a ministerial employee.” - TGC

‘Education Reimagined’: West Virginia’s quest for school choice

By Filings on Tue, 03/09/21
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“Through the decades-long work of Rev. Matthew J. Watts, a local minister in Charleston, we learn that the fight is about far more than simply boosting test scores or shuffling kids off to college. It’s about treating our children with dignity and allowing communities to freely respond to their needs.” - Acton

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