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CLASSICAL IN THE NEWS
FROM “THE DIFFERENCE”
Flipping the Script
Flipping the Script: Unexpected Lessons in Letting Your Light Shine by Kyrie Hertz (Student at The...
Ten Tips for Reading More This Summer
Ten Tips for Reading More This Summer by Mandi Gerth When I was a younger mom, I used to make lots...
Forty Years Later: Revisiting Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death
Forty Years Later: Revisiting Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death by Anthony Urti My family...
OUR SCHOOLS
What does it mean to be an ACCS Accredited school?
An answer from a newly accredited member During the past two years, Veritas Christian Academy has...
Parent Reading Lists: Read and Listen Survey Results
Photo by Frank Holleman on UnsplashREAD & LISTEN: SURVEY RESULTSBooks about Classical...
Greek Words We Have No Translation For
Read more: Why do we study the Greeks so much? ~by Louis Markos By Elise Goodwin Greek Words We...
OUR SCHOOLS
Finishing the Year with Fortitude
Finishing the Year with Fortitude by Carl Warmouth The final quarter of the school year brings...
FROM “THE DIFFERENCE”
Flipping the Script
Flipping the Script: Unexpected Lessons in Letting Your Light Shine by Kyrie Hertz (Student at The...
CLASSICAL IN THE NEWS
Student Contests and Events
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Graduates Pursue a Different Path
Alumni Profile You’re sitting down for dinner with the family, and your senior—who has attended a...
Doing Hard Things Well
Jake has a hard time trying to learn something he doesn’t easily understand. If he gets an...
200 New Classical Christian Schools Open in Just 2 Years
For the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS), 30 years of hard work is starting to...
Liam’s Wish
LIAM MCCALMON, a fifth grade student at Agathos Classical School in Columbia, TN, has used a...
This Year in History: 1825
The Death of Jacques-Louis David By James Goode When we think of great artists from the...
Recovering Classical Christian Education
Associates for Biblical Research Mr. John Mark Niehls, headmaster of ACCS member Coventry...
Flipping the Script
As I watched, I thought, Why don’t we—those of us considered to have “all” abilities—greet each other this way, with a natural jubilance, excitement, and love for life and each other?
The Good Soil Study:
Alumni life outcomes by type of school, including ACCS.
What every parent should consider.
Watch more at ClassicalChristian.org.
INSIDE YOUR CLASSICAL CLASSROOM
Classical Conundrums – Why Rhetoric?
Have Questions About Classical Christian Education? We are here to help! Q:Why do classical schools teach Rhetoric, and what is it? A:Socrates was...
Classical Conundrums: Why are seniors required to write and defend a thesis?
Have questions about classical Christian education? Ask us here. Q: Why are seniors required to write and defend a thesis? A: "The senior thesis...
Liam’s Wish
LIAM MCCALMON, a fifth grade student at Agathos Classical School in Columbia, TN, has used a devastating diagnosis to glorify God and help his...
What does it mean to be an ACCS Accredited school?
An answer from a newly accredited member During the past two years, Veritas Christian Academy has undertaken the task of changing accrediting...
EYE ON EDUCATION
A Nation of Biblical Illiterates
A timely wake-up call for Christian parents and pastors The Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University has released its American Worldview Inventory 2022. The results are disconcerting, to put it mildly. Two-thirds of parents of pre-teens in America...
200 New Classical Christian Schools Open in Just 2 Years
For the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS), 30 years of hard work is starting to pay off. Dr. Timothy Dernlan, vice president of member services and advancement at ACCS, told The Lion that 100 new ACCS schools opened in the past year. ...
Classical Education Meets New College of Florida
DeSantis’ College Appointees Like Chris Rufo Show The Battle For America’s Academies Is Far From Over ... Shortly after the announcement was made, DeSantis’ chief of staff, James Uthmeier, indicated that a priority of the new trustees would be establishing a...
Can the Classic Learning Test Replace the SAT?
On this episode of Take Back Our Schools, Andrew and Beth welcome classical education innovator Jeremy Tate who talks about his experiences teaching in inner city New York City and what led him to found the Classic Learning Test, a standardized test for classical...
ACT Test Scores Drop to Lowest Point in 30 Years
ACT scores have dropped to their lowest point in 30 years according to AP News, based on a recent report from the ACT. According to AP News: The class of 2022′s average ACT composite score was 19.8 out of 36, marking the first time since 1991 that the average score...
Watching Phones Instead Of Reading Good Books Is Starving Kids’ Souls
By: Katie Schuermann The Federalist Recently, The Federalist reprinted an excerpt from Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education 2022 Conference. So many of these students grew up reading, hearing, watching, and absorbing stories that assert they are omniscient,...
Flipping the Script
Flipping the Script: Unexpected Lessons in Letting Your Light Shine by Kyrie Hertz (Student at The Oaks Classical Christian Academy in Spokane, WA) Can the Lord guide us in nudges? I think so. And over the past few years, I have been feeling nudged in a...
Ten Tips for Reading More This Summer
Ten Tips for Reading More This Summer by Mandi Gerth When I was a younger mom, I used to make lots and lots of book lists: grade-level required summer reading for school, recommended books for boys from older moms, books I enjoyed as a young girl for my daughters. I...
Forty Years Later: Revisiting Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death
Forty Years Later: Revisiting Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death by Anthony Urti My family recently went out for dinner at a very lively restaurant where the tables were packed and the food was good. Despite the success of the menu, however, my main takeaway...
Virtue and the Really Real
Virtue and the Really Real By David Goodwin When a child at an ACCS school studies a great book, politely says, “Yes, Mrs. Cooper,” opens a door for a stranger, or correctly divides a fraction, he is participating in a higher reality. Over time, with practice, his...
Finishing the Year with Fortitude
Finishing the Year with Fortitude by Carl Warmouth The final quarter of the school year brings about some challenges that require a fresh renewal of fortitude. Boredom, mundaneness, and dull routine combine to make a formidable foe, and it’s tempting to ask if the...
Singing a Sweeter Song
Singing a Sweeter Song:What Odysseus and Orpheus Can Teach Us about the “Moral Imagination” by Matt Beatty I’ll begin by asking a question that I often ask parents during conferences: “What if your child could move her grade in this class from a B to an A—but in...
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FOR PARENTS
Ten Tips for Reading More This Summer
I want to encourage you to hit pause before you begin making all those lists and aiming for all the prizes.
Finishing the Year with Fortitude
Classical Christian education gives children the opportunity to develop the virtue of fortitude among people who love and support them so they are prepared to engage, or at least persevere, in a world that often has an averse and sometimes violent reaction to the gospel message.
FAITH & CULTURE
Flipping the Script
As I watched, I thought, Why don’t we—those of us considered to have “all” abilities—greet each other this way, with a natural jubilance, excitement, and love for life and each other?
Singing a Sweeter Song
The Sirens’ song must be resisted, but how? There are two ways, according to Homer.
COLLEGE
Graduates Pursue a Different Path
Alumni Profile You’re sitting down for dinner with the family, and your senior—who has attended a classical Christian school since...
Classical Education Meets New College of Florida
DeSantis’ College Appointees Like Chris Rufo Show The Battle For America’s Academies Is Far From Over ... Shortly after the announcement was made,...
BOOKS
The Consolation of Philosophy
Don't Forget God's Sovereignty How Great Literature Helps Us Understand Our World BY BILL STUTZMAN* Falsely accused and imprisoned, Boethius has lost everything and cannot understand why. While wallowing in the empty comforts of self-indulgent poetry (did someone say,...
Life Skills
“And having thus passed the principles of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and geography, with a general compact of physics, they may descend in mathematics to the instrumental science of trigonometry, and from thence to fortification, architecture, engineering, and...
Parent Reading Lists: Read and Listen Survey Results
Photo by Frank Holleman on UnsplashREAD & LISTEN: SURVEY RESULTSBooks about Classical Education ▾Books from the Classroom ▾Podcasts forKids ▸Read about CCE from A-Z ▸ Rewind: Audiobooks for Summer Afternoons ▸"CHRISTIAN PARENTS are ultimately responsible for the...
MORE NEWS
A Nation of Biblical Illiterates
A timely wake-up call for Christian parents and pastors The Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University has released its American Worldview Inventory 2022. The results are disconcerting, to put it mildly. Two-thirds of parents of pre-teens in America...
200 New Classical Christian Schools Open in Just 2 Years
For the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS), 30 years of hard work is starting to pay off. Dr. Timothy Dernlan, vice president of member services and advancement at ACCS, told The Lion that 100 new ACCS schools opened in the past year. ...
Classical Education Meets New College of Florida
DeSantis’ College Appointees Like Chris Rufo Show The Battle For America’s Academies Is Far From Over ... Shortly after the announcement was made, DeSantis’ chief of staff, James Uthmeier, indicated that a priority of the new trustees would be establishing a...
VIDEOS
Repairing the Ruins
Watch and Listen
Encouraged, challenged …
Recovering Classical Christian Education
Associates for Biblical Research Mr. John Mark Niehls, headmaster of ACCS member Coventry Christian Schools in Pottstown, PA, explains the "Gospel-centered and time tested alternative: Classical Christian Education." To say that western society is destroying itself...
A New Documentary: The Miseducation of America
By David Goodwin, President, ACCSIn this article: The Story of Education | A Two-year Project | Inside the Documentary | Out-takes and Fun Facts | Paideia Battle for the American Mind, by Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin.The #1 New York Times Bestseller Learn...
