Classical Education News & Articles | April 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.
Classical vs Modern "Progressive" Education
By University of Dallas | Thoughts from the Tower
Classical education remains the best approach to developing thoughtful, ethical citizens who contribute meaningfully to the world.
Classical Catholic Education or Bust
By Raymond Dansereau | Crisis
In the face of the alarming reality of rapidly shrinking Catholic School numbers, many bishops seem unable or unwilling to respond to the writing on the wall.
The $10 Billion Rise Of Classical Christian Education
By Sarah Hernholm | Forbes
A 2,500-year-old educational approach is quietly disrupting the $750 billion K-12 education market, creating opportunities for investors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders to pay attention to emerging talent pipelines.
Heritage Foundation Unveils Classical School Database
By Jacob Adams | The Daily Signal
The Heritage Foundation has compiled a searchable Classical Schools Database featuring nearly 900 schools across the United States that say they are “committed to offering a classical liberal arts education to their students.”
Arkansas approves Classic Learning Test for use in college admissions
By Jillian Schneider | The Lion
America is having a renaissance of classical education, and the Classic Learning Test – an alternative to the SAT and ACT – is no exception.
The Education Trend That Could Save America
By Kamden Mulder | AMAC
Amid declining student outcomes and cratering parent confidence in the public education system as it exists today, a revival of classical education may be just what the country needs to again become the academic envy of the world.
A New Era for Teacher Training
By Neeraja Deshpande | RealClear Education
Lucy Calkins, an academic at Columbia University Teachers College, threw out tried-and-true phonics and promoted an ineffective-but-trendy method of reading instruction in its place in the 2000s.
Why Conservatives Must Support Liberal Education
By John Howting | The Imaginative Conservative
The task of conservation, in our present day, necessarily entails supporting liberal education. Those conservatives who do not support it will fail to conserve our Western identity. That is to say: they will fail to conserve anything significant, no matter how many tributes they pay to some abstract ideas of “freedom” or “liberty.”
Under Trump, Conservative Christians Want to Reshape Public Education or Flee the System
By Kelsey Kramer McGinnis | Christianity Today
While some states move toward bringing the Bible back into schools, homeschool advocates prioritize parental rights and freedoms.
Ideas and Their Consequences
By George Weigel | James G. Martin Center
Catholic universities must address the metaphysical, moral, and social crises of the West.
Politics, Education, and the Elite
By Davis Smith | American Reformer
Reclaiming education is a matter of returning to the insights of classical political theory
Conservatives Seize the Moment to Remake Higher Ed
By Josh Moody | Inside Higher Ed
A Heritage Foundation event on Tuesday emphasized the need for reform in higher education. A Department of Education speaker touched on how Trump is forcing change.
Universities Get Schooled on Federal Funding
By Christian Schneider | National Review
The idea that elite colleges can gobble up taxpayer money while maintaining total autonomy has always been a fantasy.
The Right Is Winning the Battle over Higher Education
By Christopher F. Rufo | The Free Press
Civil-rights laws have always been a weapon—it’s just that conservatives have finally decided to wield them.
Civic Education Is a Prerequisite for Liberal Education
By Stephen Matter | Public Discourse
As Americans begin to familiarize themselves with this new front in higher education—one that can no longer be marginalized or dismissed out of hand—it is my hope that wrongheaded media criticism will eventually give way to the clear positive impact that schools of civic thought are having.
Shaping Souls to Stay Afloat
By David Randall | James G. Martin Center
Embracing virtue education may help colleges survive artificial intelligence.