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A liberal-arts education is about learning how to be free
Far too many students (and adults) think of liberty not as a condition requiring virtue and wisdom but as a license to do whatever you want.
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The dog days of school choice
Watching our daughters walk into school Monday, knowing it's a school and community we CHOSE for our kids, filled us with pride and hope. Even if it is the middle of July.
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Why North Carolina needs classical education
If individuals are to find real and abiding happiness, we have to go back to our roots — the books, ideas, concepts of the Western tradition. In short, the tree must be re-rooted if it is to bear fruit again.
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Entrepreneurship and classical education: where opportunity and values meet
In recent years, the push for more STEM courses in K-12 education has advanced alongside calls for entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk start new businesses that improve our quality of life and, perhaps more importantly to its political supporters, help the United States stay ahead of competitors abroad, particularly in...
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The enduring value of classical education
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made headlines for dodging a basic question: Should pornographic materials be in K-12 school libraries? Whitmer’s unwillingness to answer the question (which should be a resounding “No!”) is indicative of the state of mainstream education today. While many schools have excellent teachers who work within the mainstream system, public education in America is...
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In defense of private Christian schools
Every year, private schools across the nation commence for graduation ceremonies. Yet, if many of today’s progressive educators are to be believed, the ceremony they participate in ought to be abolished or sent underground. They wish for public schools to be the primary—and in some activists’ view, exclusive—vehicle for educating our youth. Indeed, whenever the...
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To anyone who thinks the liberal arts should be a thing of the past
Loosely defined, the phrase “liberal arts” refers to courses in Western philosophy, theology, literature, art, and history, with science and foreign languages playing a real but secondary role. For the ancient Greeks and many modern Westerners, the liberal arts have been thought necessary to cultivate good citizenship in a government of the people, by the...
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Whatever Happened to Growing Up and Moving Out?
At the reception following Max's bar mitzvah, the 13-year-old's father raised the toast, "Today you become an adult ... yeah, right." Everyone laughed, including Max, but clinical psychologists Joseph and Claudia Allen found the contrast between the traditional ceremony and the modern reality very pointed. Their book, Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How We Can Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old, looks at why teenagers seem to be backing away from adulthood, so often that the Allens say the age of 25 is "the new 15."
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Keeping the Menu Straight
Mixing the Qunicunx with successful habits yields an appetizing dish.
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Lindalyn’s Journal
American high schools are again under fire, and this time, Judge Manning (the judge presiding over the Leandro case) isn't the one fanning the flames. Rather, Governors from most of the states have entered the fray, calling for reforms to American high schools and to data collection on graduation rates.
