Classical Education News & Articles | October 2024
Classical Education News & Articles | October 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 Necessity of the Classics
By Louise Cowan | Modern Age
We need them as never before, and yet they go unread.
Celebrating Our Shared Humanity
By Timothy Paul Jones | World
Classical education is not a “dog whistle for white supremacy.” It’s a trumpet call for liberty
Are Catholic Universities a Good Investment?
By Chad Engelland | National Catholic Register
A university should be a place where students can pursue ultimate truths about God and the human person, not merely a place where they learn skills to help with employment.
A New Hope for K-12 Education
By Matias Ahrensdorf & Leo Grunschlag | City Journal
Emet Classical Academy is the first Jewish school devoted to the core texts of Western civilization.
Why Church-Based Homeschool Learning Centers Are Gaining Popularity in Massachusetts
By Kerry McDonald | The 74
Massachusetts is one of at least 19 states reporting an increase in 2023-24 homeschooling numbers compared to the prior academic year.
The Public-School System Is a Jobs Program for Administrators
By Corey Deangelis | National Review
Throwing more money at the problem will not fix anything without incentives to spend resources wisely.
Homeschoolers vs. Goliath
By Emily Finley | Crisis
It is apparent that there is real division in the Church; banning the homeschoolers from church property has revealed that division far more than allowing them to use the space ever could have.
We Live In Imaginary Worlds
By Freya India | After Babel
We are all aware by now that this is a lonely age. Friendships feel shallow and superficial. Local communities have deteriorated. The promise of constant connection turned out to be a cruel trap. A generation with access to billions of people say they feel lonelier than pensioners.
‘No Darkness But Ignorance’ — Shakespeare in the Public Schools
By Joseph Pearce | National Catholic Register
The pressure to remove William Shakespeare’s work from the curriculum is a symptom of a deeper ideological problems in the culture
What it Takes to Get Canceled in Education
By Robert Pondiscio | The Washington Examiner
Cancel culture strikes like lightning, swift and unforgiving, casting those who transgress its ever-evolving mores into oblivion. Yet when it comes to education, there is an odd paradox: Some offenses seem not just forgivable but invisible, while others are career killers.
The Empire Strikes Back
By R. Albert Mohler Jr. | World
An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared
There’s nothing extreme about young American traditionalists
By Margaret Mitchell | Catholic Herald
Among young Catholics at the University of Dallas, Texas, the kind of liturgy that’s accompanied by guitar-strumming and hymns from the 1970s is referred to, somewhat patronisingly, as “the Bob Dylan Mass”. “It’s our joke,” says Claire Seelig, 22, a recent graduate of the university. “Like, ‘Oh, yeah, the boomer hippie music – that’s the Bob Dylan Mass’.”
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
By Rose Horowitch | The Atlantic
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.