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Meeting the Demands of the Market: Skills or Credentials?

Meeting the Demands of the Market: Skills...

Flipping the Script

Flipping the Script: Unexpected Lessons in...
Athens, Jerusalem, and the Pentagon

Athens, Jerusalem, and the Pentagon

Classical Christian Education and Military Service BY CHIP CRANEI have often envied the classical education my kids received. I first heard about this approach in 1996 from friends involved in the early years at Rockbridge Academy, an ACCS school in Crownsville, MD. I...

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Calling Is More Than College or Career

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 who God called them to be.One week last fall, two of my adult sons texted me videos of their recent activities. One...

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The CAFF College Guide

The CAFF College Guide

ChristianCollegeGuide.com The CAFF College Guide From the Center for Academic Faithfulness & Flourishing (CAFF)What do many parents really want to know about a college these days? Along with cost, size, and other basic factors, it often comes down to paideia. They...

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Meeting the Demands of the Market: Skills or Credentials?

Meeting the Demands of the Market: Skills or Credentials?

Meeting the Demands of the Market: Skills or Credentials? A conversation with Dr. Eliot Grasso, Vice President, Gutenberg CollegeAn online tool to help your child answer the question, "What kind of college should I go to?" Note: You must enter your name and email to...

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Flipping the Script

Flipping the Script

As I watched, I thought, Why don’t we—those of us considered to have “all” abilities—greet each other this way, with a natural jubilance, excitement, and love for life and each other?

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Virtue and the Really Real

Virtue and the Really Real

Modern Christians often see heaven simply as a destination after death—the place of angels and God. But in a classical context, heaven is where ideals are real.

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Finishing the Year with Fortitude

Finishing the Year with Fortitude

Classical Christian education gives children the opportunity to develop the virtue of fortitude among people who love and support them so they are prepared to engage, or at least persevere, in a world that often has an averse and sometimes violent reaction to the gospel message.

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How Do You Teach Beauty?

How Do You Teach Beauty?

You’ve probably heard the phrase “truth, goodness, and beauty” repeated more than once at your child’s school. These words roll off the tongue as though they’re similar to each other, but one of the three is so much harder to teach.

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This Year in History: 1825

This Year in History: 1825

When we think of great artists from the past, we usually don’t associate them with political movements. But this misses something key about politics: someone always has to be telling the story. And prior to the invention of a camera, you needed an artist for that.

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Why didn’t 30 minutes of Homer do anything for my child?

Why didn’t 30 minutes of Homer do anything for my child?

Musing vs. Being Amused BY NATHAN DOWD “People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”from Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil PostmanOne of the reasons why a classical education can be challenging is that classical teachers seek to...

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FOMO, FOBO,  or Frodo?

FOMO, FOBO, or Frodo?

“I will take the Ring,” he said, “though I do not know the way.”Frodo Baggins, The Fellowship of the RingWhen Frodo stood forth at the Council of Elrond and presented himself as the ring bearer for a quest which seemed certain to fail, he obeyed a sense of calling far...

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The Discipleship of Godspeed

The Discipleship of Godspeed

Setting the Right Pace for the School Year BY ROY GRIFFITH It’s official–the school year is well underway. Shorter daylight hours and earlier bedtimes are now the rule of life, along with new friends, new teachers, and new things to learn. The slower pace of summer...

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Better Questions, Better Answers

Better Questions, Better Answers

Three Types of Questions to Ask Your Child BY MANDI GERTH As parents, we long to engage our children in meaningful conversation but often don’t know how. It’s hard to move a conversation forward after a reply like “fine” or “okay.” It’s also hard to fault the response...

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