INSIDE A CLASSICAL CLASSROOM
Princeton Grad Unhinged by a Five-year-old
Summer 2018 ... And what he did about itFresh from the halls of a premiere college prep school in Atlanta, a young Howe Whitman headed to Princeton. From there, doors were opened to Wharton where he went on to get his master’s degree. He ended up back at...
A Classical School Responds to Hurricane Harvey
Summer 2018 Featured drawing: Madison Gohlke, Annapolis Christian Academy, Corpus Christi, TX The first indication of trouble was the burglar alarm. Earlier, Leslie Collins, Head of School at Covenant Academy, had received a text indicating a power surge....
An Epidemic of Slurs, Slander, and Silliness
Summer 2018 The antidote: Classical Education. Stages of the Trivium-A Brief Synopsis Here in NYC, words are bartered like a commodity, and how they are used reflects the culture of our day. David Brooks, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times,...
My Child has Learning Disabilities: Can a Classical School Work for Us?
Spring 2018 As the movement grows, many parents and schools are seeking ways to bring more kids to the table. This includes kids with learning disabilities. It’s a broad and vague term, but one that affects many families every day. Why is my child...
Learning Disabilities
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...
Why I Chose a Classical Christian School After 15 Years Working in Public and Charter Schools
Alex Macdonald began his journey into education teaching in a grammar school in New York. He spent years working with charter schools, pioneering efforts with technology and education, and also worked with an educational service provider, assisting charter schools...
Why Future Engineers Desperately Need a Liberal Arts Education
There is a lot of fear today that children are not getting enough science and technology training, especially in a K-12 classical Christian school. The race for technical skill training is in many ways undercutting the type of education that is really needed to be a...
Do Classical Christian Schools Create Perfectionist Parents and Students?
We live in a world that celebrates mediocrity and egalitarianism, where no one can judge anyone, and anyone’s truth is as good as anyone else’s. A classical Christian school that proclaims Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, and expects excellence in all aspects of life, is...
Why Classical Education May Not Be For You
There are a lot of reasons to love classical Christian education, but is it really best for every family and child? Are there some folks who would actually do better with something else? Monica Whatley, author of Shaping Hearts and Minds, shares nine reasons why it...
A Professor, A Priest, and a Parent Walk into a School …
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...
ACCS Schools Top Test Score Charts
Quick Facts - ACCS Member Classical Christian Schools College and Career Readiness | SAT Scores | ACT Scores | PSAT Scores | Enrollment College and Career Readiness SAT College and Career Readiness Benchmark ▹ SAT Scores ACT Scores PSAT Scores ACCS Total...
Education: Our Best Weapon Against Persecution
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...
CCE: It’s Rising
by Dr. John Mark N. Reynolds | Fall 2017 We have loved being in Pittsburgh, but we would have come even if the Conference was in Newark, New Jersey. Where were we? We have been meeting with the Association of Classical Christian Schools and if you lack hope,...
Students: Why Your Education Matters
by Rebekah Merkle | Fall 2017 An answer for students to the why question So here you are in a classical school. Have you ever wondered why? Aside, of course, from the obvious fact that this is where your parents decided you should go. In my experience,...
My Ugly Is Your Pretty – Beauty Matters
The word “beauty” has gotten a bad rap these days. Modern folks generally toss it aside as an irrelevant and impractical thing, relegated to something soft and impractical, best for little girls having tea parties. Even the phrase “Truth, Goodness and Beauty” rank...
“I was robbed.”
George Grant was successful by all academic accounts and had become a speech writer for well known politicians. But what he realized while working on a masters in political science was that so much of what he was taught was not complete, and even worse, factually...
Arrival: A Movie Review
Fall 2017By David C. Goodwin A sci- movie reveals the power of classical languages Spoiler Alert: Arrival’s reality is closer than most science fiction. Twelve mysterious UFO’s hover over global positions in a sci-fi cliché that deserves one more installment....
When Education Became Job Training
Fall 2017 This year in history: 1917 PRAGMATISM, LAW, AND THE UNLIMITED POWER OF PURPOSE In 1917, the Progressive Era (c. 1880 to 1930) was in full swing. Pragmatism, the belief that effectiveness determines value, was gaining influence as the...
