This weekend we’re having a 25 th reunion and reflection on the youth civic empowerment initiative Public Achievement, in Dayton, Ohio. It reminds me how much I’ve always thought “culture” first, not ...

For the past decade, schools have placed significant emphasis on getting students ready for careers. The problem is that it’s not clear what kind of jobs will be available in ten or 20 years. So what ...

Dr. Heather Malin, Director of Research at the Stanford Center on Adolescence, poses this provocative question in her 2018 book, Teaching With Purpose. Marlins defines purpose as “a future-directed ...

In the spring of this year, education in our country was set into chaos. Teachers and administrators scrambled to find ways of delivering instruction in a remote setting. The fall rolled around, and ...

I first wrote in a guest editorial outlining the primary purpose of education that appeared in the OC Register Opinion section in 1998. At a time when phonemic awareness and basic reading, writing and ...

The pervading and unrelenting tension in American pedagogy for the last one hundred-plus years essentially has come down to one question: what is the purpose of education? This set the stage for an ...

The pace of change in education today is dizzying. Artificial intelligence, once the domain of science fiction, is now part of everyday student life. In a single year, tools like ChatGPT have reshaped ...

Why do Americans need an education in leisure? Rachel Alexander Cambre discusses the foundation of education and how it leads to a true understanding of freedom and flourishing. Rachel Alexander ...

In today’s Parenting With a Purpose — parenting, education and behavior expert Reena B. Patel shares with The Four the importance of teaching children to be team players and instill sportsmanship.

Editor’s note: Last week, the Jack Miller Center convened a National Summit on Civic Education at Mount Vernon, the Virginia home of George Washington. Robert Pondiscio delivered the keynote address.

When Hannah Vanderhooft graduated from Dordt in 2022, she landed a job in Minneapolis through a connection at church as a middle school paraprofessional and musical director. Through this role, she ...