Summer 2016 For Shakespeare the game is up. With his death on April 23, 1616, at age 52, there was a sea change in our language. Tis high time we appreciated his gift. We don’t know if he had a heart of gold or was the Devil incarnate, but we do know that what’s done...
by Douglas Wilson | Summer 2016 A poet of culture The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing...
Look up “summer activities” on the web and you’ll quickly find a century’s worth of great ideas. We’ve narrowed it down to five challenges that will keep your kids entertained, active, and engaged this summer.
One day in the middle of homeschooling our four children, I looked around our apartment where we were all working. There was not one beautiful object in it.
ON ANY GIVEN SATURDAY in the spring, you’ll likely find Grant Horner kicking his crampons into the ice at 14,000 feet as he ascends one of California’s many challenging peaks.
Monday morning, he guides undergraduates at The Masters College through the Italian and English Renaissance. And on Tuesday, he’ll counsel rhetoric students at Trinity Classical School in Valencia, CA.
Discovering truth, goodness, and beauty in some of the latest releases.
An unlikely combination of wheat fields and classical Christian education bring Hollywood magic to a north Idaho town. Sony Pictures and Director Darren Doane team up to create a fantasy with a deeper meaning.
Fall 2015 Restoring the Chest by Brittany Corona My journey into classical Christian education In Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis draws a contrast between two different methods of educating: the old way and the new way. The old way trains youth in permanent things (what...
Fall 2015 Century Watch This year in history: 1915 Quotes are from The School and Society by John Dewey. In this year, a century ago, The School and Society was published by John Dewey, the father of modern American education (1859–1952). There has not been a more...
Will the new SAT help or hurt classically educated students? With a few tips, students in ACCS schools have some key advantages.
Fall 2015 Through the Looking Glass Quotes by Classically Educated Kids “Latin is like a zombie. It’s dead. But it’s not.” —Ellen, Redeemer Classical School, Murfreesboro, TN For several weeks, both of my boys had rejected my offers to help with their Latin...
Fall 2015 DIY Parenting by Rachel Jankovic It’s fall ... time for hot chocolate and a good book One of the greatest delights that we enjoy in having our children in an academically rigorous classical Christian school is that they are very competent readers. They read...
Fall 2015 When is a field more than just a field? “That your field?” a stranger asks. You look at your five-acre dirt lot. “Yeah, did somebody get hurt on it?” “No, I want to buy it. What do you want for it?” he says eagerly. “It’s not for sale.” “I’ll give you...
Fall 2015 American Class The road to playground hell is paved with good intentions September 23, 2015, is a day that will live on in the memories of Mercer Island school children. It’s the day tag was banned. Mercer Island School District Communications Director Mary...
Liturgy and affections. Or just plain fun.
Fall 2015 Living with a Classical Christian Education by Cayln Jones Who am I? That was the question I had to answer for the first assignment in my college speech class. The professor handed out the guide sheet with a strange twinkle in her eye. I walked back to my...
