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June 2026

June 25, 2026

A Defense of Teaching Students What to Think

We often hear educators saying, "We don't teach students what to think; we teach them...

April 2026

April 28, 2026

Lost Civilization

Much of our civilization--our ways of thinking, our art, our literature, our political order--has been...

September 2025

September 09, 2025

Schools That Don’t Teach Knowledge

A cognitive scientist complains, "Schools have decided that facts are no longer worth teaching."

November 2024

November 29, 2024

Report on Classical Education

One of the few fronts in the culture wars that Christians are winning is in...

May 2024

May 23, 2024

Conservatives Conserving a Liberal Status Quo

Brad Littlejohn says that, yes, Americans on the whole tend to be conservative, but only...

August 2023

August 03, 2023

“Secular” Means “Of an Age”

The word "secular" today means having nothing to do with religion. But the term came...

April 2023

April 27, 2023

“The Science of Reading”

Parents and civil rights activists concerned about declining reading ability are pointing out that scientific...

March 2023

March 08, 2023

The Truth about Creativity

Creativity today is usually associated with "thinking outside the box," inventing new ideas by throwing...

October 2022

October 28, 2022

Math & Reading Scores Plunge to Record Lows

Math scores for fourth and eighth graders dropped to their lowest level ever. Reading scores...

November 2021

November 05, 2021

Public Schools as the Means of Indoctrinating Children

Parents are insisting that public schools should not be centers for indoctrinating their children. But...

September 2021

September 28, 2021

Black Americans Discover Classical Education (part 2)

The COVID school lockdowns have led to a surge of Black parents homeschooling and looking...

September 27, 2021

Black Americans Discover Classical Education (part I)

Black Americans are the major casualties of the progressive educational establishment, which has been failing...

August 2021

August 05, 2021

Prospects for a Renaissance

A Harvard history professor sees parallels between our cultural problems and those of the 14th...

February 2020

February 07, 2020

First Throwing Out Religion, Then Throwing Out Western Civilization

First academia threw out religion. But then religion was replaced with "Western Civilization" as the...

January 2020

January 27, 2020

Impeachment & the Renaissance

The impeachment proceedings seem like a low point in American politics. Both sides can agree...

January 10, 2018

The Reformation of America

A revolution approaches problems by overthrowing the old order and replacing it with something completely...

September 2017

September 20, 2017

The Ignorance Plague

Democracies require a certain level of civic knowledge and understanding so that citizens can effectively...

August 2017

August 03, 2017

A classical alternative to the SAT & ACT

High school graduates who want to go to college nearly always have to take the...

March 2016

March 15, 2016

Young voters prefer socialism, reject conservatism

A poll of first and second-time voters, age 18 to 26, has found that two-thirds...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

New edition of our book on classical education

The book that I did with Andrew Kern some time ago is back in a...

July 2015

July 01, 2015

Marva Collins, who brought classical education to the poor, dies

A pioneer in the rediscovery of classical education died last week. Marva Collins was an...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

The Common Core in action

The Common Core requires that at least half of what elementary and middle school students...

November 2014

November 24, 2014

The effect of the liberal arts in Hong Kong

Progressive education, which tries to reduce everything to a narrow academic specialty, thinks "liberal arts"...

July 2014

July 10, 2014

What a child with a classical education can do

Last summer I blogged about what I consider to be possibly the best book on...

May 2014

May 01, 2014

Meet me in St. Louis–for CCLE conference

The Consortium for Classical and Lutheran Education will be holding its annual conference July 15-17...

April 2014

April 03, 2014

Classical education goes to the movies

Classical education does quite a bit with aesthetics and encourages deep reflection on works of...

November 2013

November 14, 2013

“Why classical schools just might save America”

One of my many interests is classical education, on the elementary, secondary, and collegiate level. ...

July 2013

July 18, 2013

A handbook for Classical Lutheran Education

I'm at the Consortium for Classical & Lutheran Education conference in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. To...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Classical education in the news

Nice sympathetic piece at the CNN education blog about the Classical Christian education movement. From...

June 05, 2013

The best book on classical education?

One of the best books I have ever read on classical education is the just-released...