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Pencil and Paper Versus Screens: Digitalized Classrooms Are Failing to Educate Students

We’ve digitalized schools, but students are doing worse than ever. Here’s how it happened and why some are pushing for a return to traditional learning.
Pencil and Paper Versus Screens: Digitalized Classrooms Are Failing to Educate Students
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Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.