Scandals and Blueprints
A NEW SCANDAL – OR NOT? Isn’t the admissions scandal just a new variation on a long time practice of the universities? Wealthy, legacy children have gained entrance to the Ivy Leagues and other top schools since the 19th century, despite lack of qualifications. The difference here: the wealthy families in this current scandal don’t […]
Is Education In the Far East What It’s Cracked Up To Be?
I’ve spent most of my adult life examining the deficits of US education and tenure is one of the strong nails securing its coffin, as reported in The Heartland Institute blog: “In many districts, simply recommending a tenured teacher for dismissal takes at least two years because the district must document both the teacher’s weak […]
Marsha Familaro Enright Interviewed at Online Great Books Podcast
I was recently interviewed by the founder of the marvelous Online Great Books program, Scott Hambrick. He talked to me about the childhood events that triggered my lifelong interest in education, education’s problems and their roots, why reading Great Books is hard and how that can be mitigated, my encounters with Ayn Rand including her […]
Register Now for The Great Connections Leap Year
Apply Now! Enrollment is open for The Great Connections Leap Year! Please see all the information we’ve put on our updated website about the new program. Marsha Familaro Enright with Paul Enright at the New Trier Gap Fair Last weekend, I tabled at two Gap Fairs here in Chicago, Oak Park River Forest High School […]
The Classroom Is No Joke Anymore
At this link you can read about how a beloved teacher of 34 years at the Quaker School in Manhattan was sacked over a truly silly, situational Hitler joke. Unfortunately, only too many “well-educated” people not only go along with this kind of destructive nonsense out of fear, but become the enforcers to prove their […]
Poor Preparation for College
It is truly unfortunate that so many parents buy into the myth that they have to start “preparing” their children to get into the “best” colleges when they’re in kindergarten. Here’s a report from the newly created Let Grow blog about a New York City school that cancelled its end of the year kindergarten show […]
How Is Bike Riding Like College?
You might have seen the increasing number of articles discussing the fact that a college degree doesn’t prepare students with the skills to be successful in life, and many more companies which are now abolishing their degree requirements because a degree is no longer a reliable signal that a job candidate has the skills and […]
Tuition Skyrockets As You Make More Money
Alex Tabarrok at the Marginal Revolution blog analyses the huge price disparities in tuition for people of different income brackets here. This reduces income inequality and opportunity, but it punishes the incentive to work and those having more children. “At many private colleges and universities it is not unusual for some students to be paying $70,000 […]
What is “Enlightenment” Thought?
With recent books and articles being published on the Enlightenment, Iona Italia does a great job of providing us with a short primer on Enlightenment thought. “We are in many ways the inheritors of the Enlightenment. But its opponents are legion. We have the proponents of identity politics, for whom the truth of what you say is less […]
The Great Connections Newsletter May 2018
What’s Happening with the Gap Year Program We’re going to open The Great Connections Gap Year Program in the fall of 2019! We’re expanding our powerful Great Connections Seminars into a full school year for high school graduates and those who are seeking to clarify and determine their path in life–before they risk a hundred thousand dollars […]
