Classical Education News & Articles | November 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.
“Great Books” Is for Losers
By Alex Petkas | American Mind
If you’re making a list, you’ve already lost.
Leadership Is A Scam
By Joshua Gibbs | CiRCE
You may have noticed that conservatives tend to not take college majors like Feminist Studies and Queer Studies all that seriously . . . What’s odd, though, is that the same people who make such criticisms of Feminist Studies and Queer Studies also tend to treat Leadership as a serious academic matter, even though the trajectory and justification of Leadership is basically indistinguishable from that of Queer Studies.
Trump’s Win Is a Wake-Up Call for Educators. Here’s Why
By Rick Hess | EdWeek
The K-12 field has 4 opportunities to reset
Classical Education, ED, and the Ends of Schooling
By Micah Meadowcroft | Thomas D. Klingenstein
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? And what has the Department of Education to do with the classical education movement?
Manliness Needs to Make a Comeback
By Alvaro de Vicente | American Mind
The non-toxic masculinity parents are searching for.
Whose Tradition? Which Western Civilization?
By Mark Anthony Signorelli | The Classical Corner
Western civilization, at this moment in its history, taken as a whole, is profoundly diseased.
How the new Catholic Talent Project plans to change Catholic education
By Jack Figge | Our Sunday Visitor
Thomas Carroll never attended a Catholic school. Now, his job is to reform them.
Disability and Inclusion in Classical Education
By Mark Bradford | Word on Fire
The classical education movement began in independent Catholic schools but is now catching on in diocesan schools as well, where it is bringing joy and wonder back to education, filling classrooms, and reinvigorating Catholic identity (see also here). Some believe this newly recovered old method of education is ideally suited to provide formation for students with disabilities.
How Pete Hegseth as defense secretary could transform education
By Max Eden and Amy Haywood | Washington Examiner
Hegseth’s nomination could mean a truly great thing for the children of military service members.
The Science of Reading: It’s About Knowledge not “Transferable Skills”
By Doug Lemov | Field Notes
A common misunderstanding about reading comprehension is that it involves transferable skills like making inferences that once learned can be applied to other texts. Unfortunately there is little evidence that the skill translates and significant evidence that the skills happen naturally when readers have sufficient background knowledge to disambiguate texts.
Religious Colleges That Lean Into Their Identity Make Gains
By Sara Weissman | Inside Higher Ed
Stricter Christian colleges seem to be experiencing enrollment increases as religious families become more wary of secular institutions.
A world without boys’ chapter books
By Bethany Mandel | Washington Examiner
As a homeschooling mother of six children, including four boys, our home library of children’s books is extensive. My older children are reading chapter books, and they are consuming them faster than I can research them and obtain them from the library and used booksellers.
School Choice May Get Its Biggest Moment Yet
By Nirvi Shah | The74
Advocates ready their plans for a new administration they believe will be friendly to vouchers, charters and other schooling options