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Graduates Pursue a Different Path You’re sitting down for dinner with the family, and your...
Doing Hard Things Well
Jake has a hard time trying to learn something he doesn’t easily understand. If he gets an...
Preparing to Receive the Summer
As much as I’d like the Church calendar to set the rhythm of my life, it’s the school calendar....
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What does it mean to be an ACCS Accredited school?
An answer from a newly accredited member During the past two years, Veritas Christian Academy has...
Parent Reading Lists: Read and Listen Survey Results
Photo by Frank Holleman on UnsplashREAD & LISTEN: SURVEY RESULTSBooks about Classical...
Greek Words We Have No Translation For
Read more: Why do we study the Greeks so much? ~by Louis Markos By Elise Goodwin Greek Words We...
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A House is a House for Me
"Years ago, I realized that if my children wanted to feel like their house was a home, I needed to...
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Audition By: February 1Deadlines: March 8, April 5Deadline: May 3Event: June 26-29, 2024Deadline:...
Summer Leisure with ACCS
Atlanta, GA, June 17-21, 2024BY LILY SAVAGE A Reflection on the National Honor Choir Aristotle in...
Doing Hard Things Well
Jake has a hard time trying to learn something he doesn’t easily understand. If he gets an...
200 New Classical Christian Schools Open in Just 2 Years
For the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS), 30 years of hard work is starting to...
Liam’s Wish
LIAM MCCALMON, a fifth grade student at Agathos Classical School in Columbia, TN, has used a...
The Consolation of Philosophy
Don't Forget God's Sovereignty How Great Literature Helps Us Understand Our World BY BILL...
Recovering Classical Christian Education
Associates for Biblical Research Mr. John Mark Niehls, headmaster of ACCS member Coventry...
All Things Wise and Wonderful
BY JUNIUS JOHNSON "All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, Twas God that made them all." —Cecil Frances Alexander The World through the Eyes of a Child A favorite word of adults is just: “It’s just a stick;” “It’s...
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INSIDE YOUR CLASSICAL CLASSROOM
Classical Conundrums: Why are seniors required to write and defend a thesis?
Have questions about classical Christian education? Ask us here. Q: Why are seniors required to write and defend a thesis? A: "The senior thesis...
Classical Conundrums: Why do classical Christian schools require uniforms?
By Nate Ahern See More Conundrums Have questions about classical Christian education? We are here to help! Q: Why do classical Christian schools...
Liam’s Wish
LIAM MCCALMON, a fifth grade student at Agathos Classical School in Columbia, TN, has used a devastating diagnosis to glorify God and help his...
What does it mean to be an ACCS Accredited school?
An answer from a newly accredited member During the past two years, Veritas Christian Academy has undertaken the task of changing accrediting...
EYE ON EDUCATION
A Nation of Biblical Illiterates
A timely wake-up call for Christian parents and pastors The Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University has released its American Worldview Inventory 2022. The results are disconcerting, to put it mildly. Two-thirds of parents of pre-teens in America...
200 New Classical Christian Schools Open in Just 2 Years
For the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS), 30 years of hard work is starting to pay off. Dr. Timothy Dernlan, vice president of member services and advancement at ACCS, told The Lion that 100 new ACCS schools opened in the past year. ...
Classical Education Meets New College of Florida
DeSantis’ College Appointees Like Chris Rufo Show The Battle For America’s Academies Is Far From Over ... Shortly after the announcement was made, DeSantis’ chief of staff, James Uthmeier, indicated that a priority of the new trustees would be establishing a...
Can the Classic Learning Test Replace the SAT?
On this episode of Take Back Our Schools, Andrew and Beth welcome classical education innovator Jeremy Tate who talks about his experiences teaching in inner city New York City and what led him to found the Classic Learning Test, a standardized test for classical...
ACT Test Scores Drop to Lowest Point in 30 Years
ACT scores have dropped to their lowest point in 30 years according to AP News, based on a recent report from the ACT. According to AP News: The class of 2022′s average ACT composite score was 19.8 out of 36, marking the first time since 1991 that the average score...
Watching Phones Instead Of Reading Good Books Is Starving Kids’ Souls
By: Katie Schuermann The Federalist Recently, The Federalist reprinted an excerpt from Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education 2022 Conference. So many of these students grew up reading, hearing, watching, and absorbing stories that assert they are omniscient,...
Classical Conundrums – Why Rhetoric?
Have questions about classical Christian education? We are here to help! Q:Why do classical schools teach Rhetoric, and what is it? A:Socrates was put on trial in Athens 2,400 years ago with several accusations, one of which was “making the weaker argument appear to...
Alumni Profile
Graduates Pursue a Different Path You’re sitting down for dinner with the family, and your senior—who has attended a classical Christian school since kindergarten—suddenly blurts, “Mom and Dad, I don’t think I want to take the traditional path and go to college.” ...
Doing Hard Things Well
Jake has a hard time trying to learn something he doesn’t easily understand. If he gets an answer wrong, his head goes down on the desk and he struggles to pull it together. The teacher has notified his parents and the parents share that Jake is “on the spectrum.” ...
Preparing to Receive the Summer
As much as I’d like the Church calendar to set the rhythm of my life, it’s the school calendar. The Church year is varied, shimmering, dappled—the school calendar, not so much. Nine and a half months of the Apollonian followed by ten weeks of the Dionysian. A lot of...
Bringing Classical Christian Education to Africa
TAZARA RAILWAY LINKING ZAMBIA AND TANZANIA: PHOTO BY KATSUMA TANAKA ON UNSPLASH Part II* - Zambia (Read Part I) In September, 2023, a few weeks before David Goodwin and Tim Dernlan (ACCS president and vice president, respectively) were scheduled to depart for Africa,...
A House is a House for Me
"Years ago, I realized that if my children wanted to feel like their house was a home, I needed to be intentional about making our physical shelter a place of spiritual refuge. The work of home-maker suddenly became holy work. My perspective had changed." On one of...
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Doing Hard Things Well
Jake has a hard time trying to learn something he doesn’t easily understand. If he gets an answer wrong, his head goes down on the desk and he...
Preparing to Receive the Summer
As much as I’d like the Church calendar to set the rhythm of my life, it’s the school calendar. The Church year is varied, shimmering, dappled—the...
FAITH & CULTURE
Lifebuoys for the Soul
By Emily Morales Apologetics Resources Equip Parents for Today’s Ideological Arena If you have seen the holiday classic, A Christmas Story, then you...
Classical Conundrums: Why Dances?
Have questions about classical Christian education? We are here to help! Q: Why do classical Christian schools have traditional folk dances...
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Graduates Pursue a Different Path You’re sitting down for dinner with the family, and your senior—who has attended a classical Christian school...
Classical Education Meets New College of Florida
DeSantis’ College Appointees Like Chris Rufo Show The Battle For America’s Academies Is Far From Over ... Shortly after the announcement was made,...
BOOKS
The Consolation of Philosophy
Don't Forget God's Sovereignty How Great Literature Helps Us Understand Our World BY BILL STUTZMAN* Falsely accused and imprisoned, Boethius has lost everything and cannot understand why. While wallowing in the empty comforts of self-indulgent poetry (did someone say,...
Life Skills
“And having thus passed the principles of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and geography, with a general compact of physics, they may descend in mathematics to the instrumental science of trigonometry, and from thence to fortification, architecture, engineering, and...
Parent Reading Lists: Read and Listen Survey Results
Photo by Frank Holleman on UnsplashREAD & LISTEN: SURVEY RESULTSBooks about Classical Education ▾Books from the Classroom ▾Podcasts forKids ▸Read about CCE from A-Z ▸ Rewind: Audiobooks for Summer Afternoons ▸"CHRISTIAN PARENTS are ultimately responsible for the...
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A Nation of Biblical Illiterates
A timely wake-up call for Christian parents and pastors The Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University has released its American Worldview Inventory 2022. The results are disconcerting, to put it mildly. Two-thirds of parents of pre-teens in America...
200 New Classical Christian Schools Open in Just 2 Years
For the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS), 30 years of hard work is starting to pay off. Dr. Timothy Dernlan, vice president of member services and advancement at ACCS, told The Lion that 100 new ACCS schools opened in the past year. ...
Classical Education Meets New College of Florida
DeSantis’ College Appointees Like Chris Rufo Show The Battle For America’s Academies Is Far From Over ... Shortly after the announcement was made, DeSantis’ chief of staff, James Uthmeier, indicated that a priority of the new trustees would be establishing a...
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Recovering Classical Christian Education
Associates for Biblical Research Mr. John Mark Niehls, headmaster of ACCS member Coventry Christian Schools in Pottstown, PA, explains the "Gospel-centered and time tested alternative: Classical Christian Education." To say that western society is destroying itself...
A New Documentary: The Miseducation of America
By David Goodwin, President, ACCSIn this article: The Story of Education | A Two-year Project | Inside the Documentary | Out-takes and Fun Facts | Paideia Battle for the American Mind, by Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin.The #1 New York Times Bestseller Learn...
