Spring 2018 This issue focused on Learning Disabilities and the classical model. More from Laura Tucker: Questions for your school visit Common Accommodations How the Classical Method Helps at Various Stages Signs and Symptoms Sample IQ Score Sheet and...
Summer 2018 Ranking Websites: The Strategist, Amazon, Ranker DIY ParentingThe Benefits of Board Games THIS SUMMER, BREAK OUT THE BOARD GAMES, AND RELISH IN DEVICES TURNED OFF AND CONVERSATION LEVELS TURNED UP. If you don’t have one during the school year,...
Summer 2018 In Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, you can see 10,000-foot Thompson Peak. And, if you know where to look, there’s a small crevice near the top. In this crevice hides one of the most beautiful and striking lakes in the world. On summer mornings, we’ll begin the...
Winter 2017 Letters and Notes: from friends, parents, and supporters While big sister Courtney is at Whitefield Academy, little brother Caleb (almost 2) finds a new use for The Classical Difference magazine: letter searching. In this picture he is looking for “N.”...
Winter 2017 Great & Small The Georgetown Library Gingerbread Competition in Georgetown, TX, takes engineering to new levels. And leading the show is Grace Academy (GA). For the past decade, the GA Classical League has been rebuilding Rome in gingerbread and has...
Winter 2017 Lunch in the Devil's Triangle. Rather than aircraft or ships, students occasionally disappear this time of year into the educational equivalent of the Devil’s Triangle. Every year as a headmaster, some parent would invite me to lunch, “I’m not sure this...
Winter 2017 ... and they all find something on which to agree. Classical Christian education has come a long way. It traveled thousands of years to reach us where we are today, and it’s spreading. Here are three takes on classical education from perspectives you might...
Winter 2017 This Year in History: 1517 Christmas (Almost) Cancelled: 500 Christmases Since Wittenberg Who knew, that fateful day of 1517, how far the reaches of a monk’s protest, nailed to the door at Wittenberg, would go? You might be surprised to learn that...
Winter 2017 Awhile back, a World magazine post on divorce and its effects got us thinking. Quick Links: View the World article at https://world.wng.org/2016/05/sins_of_their_fathers_mothers As a former headmaster, I saw too many families in the process of breaking up....
Winter 2017 Last year, Highland Rim Academy’s survey revealed that an astonishing 97% of the families found the school by word-of-mouth.The following stories reveal what a chance meeting can mean in the life of a child. ★ LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY, WHITE...
by George Grant | Winter 2017 Learn more about the ACCS Boniface Award THE BROAD OAKEN TABLE in the hall of Wittenberg’s modest Black Abbey manse was crowded and clamorous as Master Luther’s students waited anxiously. This was always a highlight of their week:...
by Scott Yenor | Winter 2017 Where has all the wisdom gone? Quick Links: To watch Dr. Scott Yenor's Fox News interview, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHG4GJrJpfs If you are over 40 but not yet retired, you probably had a college education that was composed...
Winter 2017 A Path Well-Defined According to Mary Kathryn Davis, there is a direct link between her insatiable appetite for beauty and her education. It was the pursuit of God’s truth, goodness, and beauty that cultivated her interest in history and fine arts,...
by Timothy Pauls | Winter 2017 Practicing Holidays Quick Links: Traditional Church Calendar (PDF) The year is full of holidays. From December through May, the holidays we celebrate are largely sacred in origin. The biggest, of course, are Christmas and Easter, but...
Fall 2017 Greetings from The King’s College in NYC! It was an honor to be with you during the ACCS conference in Pittsburgh last week. Thank you for your warm welcome. I felt I was part of a community of leaders who are collectively doing something significant for the...
Fall 2017 Classical education can do today what it has done before. A friend who attends Oxford University reports that the Christian scholarly publication First Things has been moved to a rack at the library designated as “hate speech.” Already in 2017, we’ve...
