Classical Education News & Articles | August 2023
In addition to reviewing books, ClassicalEd Review provides our readers with a monthly compendium of recent articles and news stories related to classical education and the liberal arts.
Schools That Teach The Classics Instead Of Marxism See Exponential Growth
by Joy Pullman
Some of these school networks have seen increases of 5,000 percent in a few decades.
Stop Using Learning Stations
by Daniel Buck
Can we stop with the learning stations already? My teacher prep endorsed them. My first instructional coach trained me in them. Every school that I’ve ever worked at has incorporated them. Look them up on Teachers Pay Teachers and you’ll find scores of activities for various literacy stations, each one promising that they are proven effective.
A Bitter Lesson for a Philanthropist at Arizona State
by George Leef
By allowing leftists free rein, ASU has lost a major donor.
More Schools Playing the Parental Role, But Not for the Good of Students
by Matthew Mehan
In recent years, parents have witnessed a growing fierceness in the battle over parental rights, especially as regards their children’s education in public schools. Parents must remember that their love for their children is an expertise all its own – and their love outshines every false claim that would imitate or coopt it.
Smartphones Are the New Civilizational Crisis
by Frank Devito
They make us incapable of normal human interaction.
Educator Tom Carroll’s Renaissance of Catholic Education
by Joan Frawley Desmond
Boston Archdiocese’s superintendent of schools Tom Carroll addresses learning based on ‘foundational virtues’ in an interview with the Register.
Why Humanities PhDs Should Teach at Classical Schools
by Samuel Klumpenhouwer
Earlier this year, Mark Bauerlein invited humanities PhDs to join the ranks of classical school teachers across the country. To his advice I say, “Amen.” I can testify from personal experience that a good life awaits those who follow this route.
After Years in the Wilderness, Conservative Christian Education Is Being Born Again Post-Pandemic
by Vince Bielski
New, state-funded school choice programs make it easier for students from poor families to afford tuition.
The School-Choice Moment
by Nicole Stelle Garnett & Michael Q. McShane
Never before have so many students had so many options
Aristotle’s 10 Rules for a Good Life
by Arthur C. Brooks
An ancient Greek recipe for happiness.
In Classical Schools, Kids Don’t Test For Weeks And The Quiet Ones Can Shine
by Joy Pullmann
Due to their mission to ‘support good government and the happiness of mankind,’ classical schools are seeing surges in enrollment — and hatred from legacy media.
Old School
by Alexandra Desanctis
Why classical education is making a comeback
To Reverse the K–12 Civics Crisis, We Must Reform Higher Ed
by Thomas Kelly
Some public universities are taking positive steps to educate future teachers and leaders in the fundamental knowledge of citizenship.
Play Deprivation Is A Major Cause of the Teen Mental Health Crisis
by Jon Haidt and Peter Gray
Allowing more unsupervised free play is among the most powerful and least expensive ways to bring down rates of mental illness.
Catholic Education is Taking Off
by Mark Bauerlein
The reasons aren't mysterious. Catholic liberal education has a positive vision of past and present, inquiry and tradition, man and God.
Trauma-Deformed Pedagogy
by Max Eden
That an education professor would publish a complete joke of a study isn’t notable in and of itself. But that such a study is cited as evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of a pedagogical practice, within a broader framework for how America’s largest state should teach mathematics, goes a long way to explaining the sorry state of American math achievement.