Repairing the Ruins in Brazil By Lucas EvangelistaIn the mid-16th century, while the Inquisition...
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Home Cooked: A Linger-at-the-Table Family Culture
Tips to Create a Linger-at-the-Table Culture in Your Family By Mandi GerthNot all of us grow up...
Century Watch: Peter Minuit Purchases Manhattan Island
Century Watch This Year in History: 1626 By James Goode When most of us think of New York City, we...
Teaching Personal Finance
Why Financial Education Matters By Frank ClementWhy did they teach me calculus but never explain...
OUR SCHOOLS
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...
OUR SCHOOLS
Finishing the Year with Fortitude
Finishing the Year with Fortitude by Carl Warmouth The final quarter of the school year brings...
FROM “THE DIFFERENCE”
Home Cooked: A Linger-at-the-Table Family Culture
Tips to Create a Linger-at-the-Table Culture in Your Family By Mandi GerthNot all of us grow up...
CLASSICAL IN THE NEWS
Called in Brazil
Repairing the Ruins in Brazil By Lucas EvangelistaIn the mid-16th century, while the Inquisition...
Graduates Pursue a Different Path
Alumni Profile You’re sitting down for dinner with the family, and your senior—who has attended a...
Doing Hard Things Well
Jake has a hard time trying to learn something he doesn’t easily understand. If he gets an...
Student Contests and Events
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Liam’s Wish
LIAM MCCALMON, a fifth grade student at Agathos Classical School in Columbia, TN, has used a...
Wild Inks
There and Back Again With WILD INKS BY COLLEEN FRANKLIN Table of Contents Slow Writing Making Ink...
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...
An Interview with Jonathan Pageau
Tales for Once and Ever An Interview with Jonathan PageauA growing number of parents are rejecting watered-down Disney retellings of fairy tales and returning to the undiluted originals. What makes these ancient stories compelling today? ACCS’s Devin O’Donnell sat...
The Good Soil Study:
Alumni life outcomes by type of school, including ACCS.
What every parent should consider.
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INSIDE YOUR CLASSICAL CLASSROOM
Classical Conundrums: Parent Engagement
Classical Conundrums Have questions about classical Christian education? We are here to help!Q: Schools often talk about “parent engagement.” What...
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...
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,...
Home Cooked: A Linger-at-the-Table Family Culture
Tips to Create a Linger-at-the-Table Culture in Your Family By Mandi GerthNot all of us grow up cooking with our parents. In fact, I affectionately tease my mother that she raised her children on a sparese menu of sloppy joes, chicken and wild rice, and meatloaf. She...
Century Watch: Peter Minuit Purchases Manhattan Island
Century Watch This Year in History: 1626 By James Goode When most of us think of New York City, we picture skyscrapers, impossible traffic, Broadway, the Brooklyn Bridge, millions of crowded people, or a hundred other things. But I’m willing to bet that one thing you...
Teaching Personal Finance
Why Financial Education Matters By Frank ClementWhy did they teach me calculus but never explain how money works?” You might have heard that question, or even asked it yourself. It’s an especially common reaction among young adults when they receive their first...
Classical Conundrums: Parent Engagement
Classical Conundrums Have questions about classical Christian education? We are here to help!Q: Schools often talk about “parent engagement.” What does that look like at a classical Christian school? A: Many parents hear “engagement” and picture a calendar: attend the...
Called in Brazil
Repairing the Ruins in Brazil By Lucas EvangelistaIn the mid-16th century, while the Inquisition was burning books and bodies of those who dared embrace the Reformation, a group of men and women decided to journey across the Atlantic. These were the...
An Interview with Jonathan Pageau
Tales for Once and Ever An Interview with Jonathan PageauA growing number of parents are rejecting watered-down Disney retellings of fairy tales and returning to the undiluted originals. What makes these ancient stories compelling today? ACCS’s Devin O’Donnell sat...
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Home Cooked: A Linger-at-the-Table Family Culture
Tips to Create a Linger-at-the-Table Culture in Your Family By Mandi GerthNot all of us grow up cooking with our parents. In fact, I affectionately...
Teaching Personal Finance
Why Financial Education Matters By Frank ClementWhy did they teach me calculus but never explain how money works?” You might have heard that...
FAITH & CULTURE
Home Cooked: A Linger-at-the-Table Family Culture
Tips to Create a Linger-at-the-Table Culture in Your Family By Mandi GerthNot all of us grow up cooking with our parents. In fact, I affectionately...
Called in Brazil
Repairing the Ruins in Brazil By Lucas EvangelistaIn the mid-16th century, while the Inquisition was burning books and bodies of those who dared...
COLLEGE
Classical Distinctives: What is a “Tutorial”?
By Dr. Nicholas Ellis Founder and CEO of Christian Halls International, Doctor of Philosophy, University of OxfordA growing number of classical...
Calling Is More Than College or Career
BY HANNAH GRIESERAs graduation nears, we should do more than help our kids decide where they should go after graduation. We should help them discern...
BOOKS
An Interview with Jonathan Pageau
Tales for Once and Ever An Interview with Jonathan PageauA growing number of parents are rejecting watered-down Disney retellings of fairy tales and returning to the undiluted originals. What makes these ancient stories compelling today? ACCS’s Devin O’Donnell sat...
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...
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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 undertaken the task of changing accrediting associations. “Why did we make this change from a broad accreditation to a specific group?” The short answer is that as a...
“Aeneid the Musical”
Epic Poem Turned Musical: Aeneid the Musical Five seniors turn their thesis into something different "We are hoping to write a musical! And then cast it, produce it, and direct it!" These words came from two young men who had recently delivered their junior thesis and...
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...
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Repairing the Ruins
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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...
