Classical Education News & Articles | June 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.
Changing America with Classical Education
by Kevin D. Roberts
Dr. Larry Arnn—the twelfth president of Hillsdale College—joins a special episode of The Kevin Roberts Show, filmed at the 50th Anniversary of The Heritage Foundation, for a candid discussion about the state of both education and the federal government.
Hillsdale College breaks ground on new Graduate School of Classical Education
by Corey Murray
Hillsdale College celebrated the groundbreaking for the new Diana Davis Spencer Graduate School of Classical Education on May 12. The building will house the graduate program in classical education, which first held classes in August 2022.
Permanent Revolution
by R.R. Reno
Why is our collective mood so sour? We are awash with material wealth, and technology provides us with unprecedented powers. But this veneer of well-being masks a deeper crisis.
To Labour is to Love
by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Dorothy L. Sayers and putting first things first.
Good Neighbors
by Scott F. Crider
Remembering the Importance of Friendship and Civic Duty Above Politics
ChatGPT Will Force Us To Be More Classical
by Joshua Gibbs
Over the years, I’ve spoken with a handful of parents who have insisted that their eighth-grade sons did not know what sex was. When a teacher is confronted with such painful naivete, there is really only one pious thing to do, which is to repent of all the ways in which you have been painfully naïve, as well.
Case in point: ChatGPT.
Classical Education Is The Best Defense Against Dysfunctional AI-Infested Schools
by Kate Deddens
The advent of sophisticated AI strongly suggests the educational establishment should correct course.
A Religious Charter School Faces Pushback From the Charter School Movement Itself
by Sarah Mervosh
A Catholic school, newly approved in Oklahoma, is testing the bounds of what it means to be a charter — uncomfortably so for some leaders.
For Many School Choice Advocates, ‘Religious’ Means ‘Christian’
by Peter Hanson & Ishai Melamede
Support for vouchers and education savings accounts drops when survey respondents realize funding can go to schools of other faiths.
The Perils of School Choice
by Daniel Buck
School choice holds promise, but proponents must be realistic about the challenges.
Classical charter school enrollment skyrockets in Texas
by Cassidy Syftestad and Albert Cheng
The advent of sophisticated AI strongly suggests the educational establishment should correct course.
College Curricula Should Cultivate Core Values, Not Shallow Diversity
by Mark Bauerlein
A fixed, coherent, superior core curriculum at every liberal arts school is one way to supply our youth with what has been lost.
'Back to Basics' in Education Is Not Enough
by Gillian Richards
Conservatives need to offer a substantive vision of how to educate the whole person.
Whose Classical Education? Which Canon War?
by Lue-Yee Tsang
Recently, Nathan Ristuccia wrote an article in this journal responding to debates around calls to diversify the canon in classical Christian education (a debate well summarized elsewhere by Matthew Freeman).
Classical Education & Its Discontents
by Colin Redemer
Jeremy Tate’s Classic Learning Test (hereafter CLT) is one of the more hopeful things happening in the education space.
DeSantis’s Revolutionary Defense of the Classics
by Cornel West and Jeremy Tate
Promoting the Western canon shouldn’t only be a Republican talking point.
Why Classical Education Needs a Theology of Wisdom: A Foundation for Wise Integration in the Modern World
by Jason Barney
The modern world of education is characterized by the opposites of integration: isolation and reductionism.
The Source of Creativity & the Wellspring of Culture
by Glenn Arbery
In classical education, we are not talking about tradition as the acquisition of monuments, but as a permanence gathered from moments of participation capable of being lived and lived again and then passed on to be taken up yet again by generations yet to come, with our own additions and our own achievements of greatness.
Squandering Our Inheritance
by Christopher Bedford
The fight for Catholic schools and the future of American institutions.
Get Phones Out of Schools Now
by Jonathan Haidt
They impede learning, stunt relationships, and lessen belonging. They should be banned.
The Parents Saying No to Smartphones
by Olivia Reingold
‘How you help them learn to be present, in a task or with a relationship, is one of the top challenges of our generation. Part of that is going to be saying no.’
Toward a Classical Counter-Elite
by Matthew Freeman
An education in hero-worship will aim to produce new heroes.
How Children Once Learned to Write
by Bryan A. Garner
In a bygone day, Harvard University Press issued a book about how children once learned to write and why they learned that way.
The CLT is a growing, classical alternative to the ACT and SAT: An interview with its co-founder
by Daniel Buck
Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation that allowed high schoolers to use the Classic Learning Test (CLT)—a classical alternative to the SAT and ACT—to qualify for the state’s Bright Futures scholarship.
Building Culture: The Architecture of a Successful Classroom
by Patrick Egan
In his book The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle describes how organizations can create cultures that flourish based on studies of various teams such as the Navy SEALs, the San Antonio Spurs and the Brain Trust at Pixar, to name a few.
Mystery Through Manners
by Scott Postma
Using Grotesque Elements to Address the Depravity of Reality
Western Classics Exclude Me. But Christ Can Redeem Them.
by Sara Kyoungah White
As an Asian American, God's great story helps me value literature that often leaves me out.
New ‘Reparations Math’ Is Coming to a Public School Near You
by Matt Beienburg
Curriculum-transparency legislation can help prevent the madness.
How to Replicate J.R.R. Tolkien’s Education for Your Child
by Annie Holmquist
Tolkien’s fame, lovability, and worldwide influence are the types of things most parents dream of seeing flower and bloom in their own children.
Classical Education Comes to Bedford
by Ray Domanico
A wealthy New York suburb is home to a Catholic startup school with countercultural aspirations.