Joanne JacobsFeb 6, 20181 minFacts — not thinking skills — fight ‘truth decay’“Critical thinking” is all the rage in schools, counters writes Chester E. Finn, Jr. in Education Next. “As construed and applied” in our...
Joanne JacobsDec 14, 20172 minFalse memories: It wasn’t all rote pre-Core “Now, what I want is Facts,” said Thomas Gradgrind in Dickens’ Hard Times. “Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are...