Classical Education News & Articles | January 2025
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.
CRT 2.0
By Samuel Lair | The American Mind
A new brand of neo-Marxism is worming its way into schools.
Going On Offense
By Kevin Roberts | Cardinal Newman Society
We can use the next four years to advance Catholic education and secure it for decades.
Adopting a Classical Curriculum Energized This Catholic School
By Joseph Pronechen | National Catholic Register
An enrollment turnaround was accomplished via the classical route.
My Advice to Catholic Schools: Double Down on Your Catholicity
By Thomas W. Carroll | National Catholic Register
Instead of watering down our schools to appease nonbelieving parents, our Catholic schools must plant the seeds for a brighter, more faithful future for the Church and for America.
We love our public school. Here’s why we’re going private anyway
By Ericka Andersen | The Washington Examiner
I never understood why parents in affluent suburbs with excellent public schools would opt for pricey private education.
Report on Classical Education
By Gene Veith | Patheos
One of the few fronts in the culture wars that Christians are winning is in the crucial sphere of education.
Parents Keep Filling Up Schools Where Children Learn To Love Western Civilization
By Mark Bauerlein | The Federalist
The growth of classical education schools is astonishing. The numbers keep rising; there is no sign that the movement is beginning to plateau.
Edith Hamilton and the Resurgence of American Education
By John M. Dejak | Chronicles
Classical and liberal arts education have resurged during the last 20 years, especially at the primary and secondary levels.
Conservative Christian private schools find a foothold in liberal San Francisco
By Sam Mondros | The San Francisco Standard
On the northern slope of Bernal Heights, amid bay windows adorned with rainbow Pride flags and leftover signs supporting Aaron Peskin for mayor, sits a 66-student school that weaves in lessons from the Bible with deep study of classical creeds and languages.
In His Own Words: Jefferson and Education
By Christine Norvell | Ford Forum
For better or worse, education can shape who we are, and Thomas Jefferson knew that.
Rumors of War
By Anna J. Egalite | Education Next
Book asserts that public schools are under attack. But the forces arrayed against them are hard to identify.
Simple, Sensible Advice for Raising Virtuous Kids
By Frederick Hess | Education Next
Musing on the practical wisdom of Four Lessons from My Three Sons.
Humane Learning in a Machine Age
By Ben Reinhard | Hearth and Field
A crisis in the humanities is of course nothing new: liberal education has long been on unstable ground in western universities, the soil eroding and the water table rising.
Grand Canyon Classroom
By Betsy K. Brown | Plough
A hiking club is a natural extension of a classical education.
Content Guru Natalie Wexler Urges Us to Move ‘Beyond The Science of Reading’
By Greg Toppo | The74
New book recommends that educators broaden focus with history and science to help students go deeper and learn more.