Classical Education News & Articles | August 2024
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.
The Virtues of Classical Schools
By Daniel Buck | National Review
‘We’re grounded in what is true and what is good’
What the Freshman Class Needs to Read
By Niall Ferguson and Jacob Howland | The Atlantic
It is no small part of a liberal education to show students the broad range of meaningful lives they might aspire to lead.
The Woke Capture of Charter Schools
By Jay Greene, Ian Kingsbury and Jason Bedrick | The Heritage Foundation
School choice should empower parents to obtain an education for their own children that is consistent with their values. This is occurring well with private school choice, but with charter school choice it is falling short.
Conversion to the Right
By Ross Hunt | The American Mind
Understanding a piece of art in all its dimensions must come before any other consideration.
I Moved My Family Across The Country For Classical Education, And You Can Too
By Christine Elliott Rivers | The Federalist
If you find yourself worried about where your child will attend school, and you don’t see any good options, might I suggest taking a leap?
Classical, Christian Education as a Battle
By Scott Yenor | American Reformer
How a Jewish thinker, Leo Strauss, opened me to faith
Paul, the Christian Socrates
By Peter J. Leithart | First Things
Paul’s apology before the court of the Areopagus (Acts 17) has been held up as a master class in contextualization. Paul accommodates his message to his audience of Greek philosophers, adopting a metaphysical idiom and quoting “one of your own poets.” Paul’s address seems to lend an apostolic imprimatur to various shades and flavors of Christian Hellenism.
From ‘Educating for Liberty’ to Fawning Over Nationalism
By Jeffery Tyler Syck | The Dispatch
How the Intercollegiate Studies Institute traded the Western canon for present-day politics.
The Grizzly Truth about the West
By Jacob Howland | UnHerd
We have forgotten the basic principles of civilisation
Redeeming Our Attention
By Jody C. Benson | Humanum
Review of Wildcat, 2023. Directed by Ethan Hawke.
The Conservative Student on the Liberal Campus
By Jeffrey Polet | The Acton Institute
Should conservatives really fight for “viewpoint diversity” on campus?
How to Build an American Classical Curriculum
By Nathan Gill | American Reformer
Many readers wrote asking me for help imagining what a truly American classical education might look like. In this article I’ll attempt to give a rough picture, basing my suggestions on my own teaching, and the curricular reforms I’ve helped oversee.
Anna Julia Cooper: Uplifting the Oppressed With Liberal Arts Education
by Carrie Eben | The Imaginative Conservative
Anna Julia Cooper passionately defended classical education during the Reconstruction Era when the dilemma of how to educate former slaves arose. Cooper, a former slave herself, preached the virtue of classics and their necessary vitality to the soul.
Christian Classical Schools Deserve A Hymnody As Good As Their Grammar And History
by Josh Herring | The Federalist
In church history, two simple actions constantly emerge: systematic teaching of theology, and imaginative engagement through singing hymns.
Tallahassee Classical School is facing a discrimination lawsuit. Here's what we know
by Alaijah Brown | Tallahassee Democrat
Tallahassee Classical School, the subject of recent controversy, now faces a lawsuit with claims of discrimination after a then-teacher reportedly used a racial epithet in front of students.
‘Demand like never before.’ Why millions are flowing to NC charter schools from investors
by Luke Fountain and Gavin Off | National Catholic Register
Millions of dollars are flowing from private equity firms into charter schools across North Carolina to help buy new classroom materials, renovate and expand.
Summit Brings National Catholic Leaders to Campus to Address Civics Education Crisis
By Benedictine College
The Summit on Civics in Catholic Education met at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, this summer to address a crisis.
In Catholic education, there is so much hope on the horizon
by Bishop James Conley | Southern Nebraska Register
Jesus was a teacher. Catholic education dates back to apostolic times. The Catholic Church established the first schools in western civilization.
The Expert vs. The Charmer: Who's the Better Teacher?
by Richard Ullman | RealClear Education
Call it veteran teacher’s intuition. I suspected that the reported rise in student behavioral issues was having a transformative impact on what schools were now prioritizing in their new teacher hires.
Exploring the new springtime for Catholic classical education
by Richard Meloche | Catholic Review
By all objective measures, Holy Family Cathedral School in Tulsa, Okla., like many other Catholic parochial schools throughout the nation, was a failing institution. Enrollment was down 77 percent, with only 88 students enrolled in 2019.
The only Indian high schools that teach Aristotle and Plato
by Adhiraj Parthasarathy & Saurabh Seth | Scroll.in
The philosophical-religious education of madrasas that included Aristotelian logic, rhetoric and fostered a spirit of enquiry has been rendered obsolete.