Listen on "Anchored": The Battle for the American Mind with Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin On this...
CLASSICAL IN THE NEWS
A New Documentary: The Miseducation of America
By David Goodwin, President, ACCS Click here to learn the backstory, read about each episode, and...
Why I Started a Classical Christian School
For The Gospel Coalition By Daniel David Black Daniel David Black shares the journey of Rochester...
FROM “THE DIFFERENCE”
The Beauty of Standing Fast
A Headmaster’s Perspective “Men’s” magazines have women on the cover; women’s magazines also have...
Seeing Beyond The Day
"EVERYONE WANTS THE APPLES; VERY FEW WANT TO PLANT THE TREE AND WAIT." THE SMALL BEGINNINGS OF A...
The Ghost Legion of Rome and the Wall of Hadrian
This year in history In A.D. 122, the Roman Emperor Hadrian landed in Britain and headed directly...
OUR SCHOOLS
Kindergartners and Chicken Eggs
NOTE FROM A HEADMASTER Christopher Stevens, Cornerstone Classical School, Salina, KS Every year...
Why I Started a Classical Christian School
For The Gospel Coalition By Daniel David Black Daniel David Black shares the journey of Rochester...
Valentine’s Day
"Valentine’s Day is a wonderful tradition, but you have to admit that it does little to give us...
CLASSICAL IN THE NEWS
CLT’s Anchored Podcast Features David Goodwin – The Battle for the American Mind
Listen on "Anchored": The Battle for the American Mind with Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin On this...
FROM “THE DIFFERENCE”
The Beauty of Standing Fast
A Headmaster’s Perspective “Men’s” magazines have women on the cover; women’s magazines also have...
OUR SCHOOLS
Why I Started a Classical Christian School
For The Gospel Coalition By Daniel David Black Daniel David Black shares the journey of Rochester...
A New Documentary: The Miseducation of America
By David Goodwin, President, ACCS Click here to learn the backstory, read about each episode, and...
Seeing Beyond The Day
"EVERYONE WANTS THE APPLES; VERY FEW WANT TO PLANT THE TREE AND WAIT." THE SMALL BEGINNINGS OF A...
Kindergartners and Chicken Eggs
NOTE FROM A HEADMASTER Christopher Stevens, Cornerstone Classical School, Salina, KS Every year...
Why I Started a Classical Christian School
For The Gospel Coalition By Daniel David Black Daniel David Black shares the journey of Rochester...
The Ghost Legion of Rome and the Wall of Hadrian
This year in history In A.D. 122, the Roman Emperor Hadrian landed in Britain and headed directly...
A Video Facebook Refuses to Post
Facebook censors a video posted by ACCS member The Saint Constantine School in Houston, TX: The...
Poiema: “Work of God”—In the Congo
"Congratulations on launching PIA today! I’m proud of you, Mom!” Kahindo Mbodwam read these words right after she awoke from a nap on opening day at Poiema International Academy in Kinshasa, The Democratic Republic of Congo. Exhaustion had set in. But when she saw the...
INSIDE YOUR CLASSICAL CLASSROOM
Kindergartners and Chicken Eggs
NOTE FROM A HEADMASTER Christopher Stevens, Cornerstone Classical School, Salina, KS Every year our kindergarten incubates chicken eggs. Each day...
Classical Conundrums: Why do we need a classical Christian education as opposed to just a Christian education?
By William Bryant Related: Why I Started a Classical Christian School Q: We live in rural America. We love it, and so do our kids. Classical...
OUR SCHOOLS IN THE NEWS
Why I Started a Classical Christian School
For The Gospel Coalition By Daniel David Black Daniel David Black shares the journey of Rochester Classical Academy, a new classical Christian...
A Video Facebook Refuses to Post
Facebook censors a video posted by ACCS member The Saint Constantine School in Houston, TX: The video of students and others reciting Pericles'...
EYE ON EDUCATION
School Choice and Masks-WSJ
A Wall Street Journal article recently cited a new trend amongst democrats favoring school choice: The good news is that we might find some unity amid such division. A nationwide poll by Echelon Insights in August found that 79% of respondents with an opinion support...
1776
The 1776 Commission versus the 1619 Project: The winner of the quiet battle over what goes into our nation's history classrooms will determine the path of our country.In Depth: The 1619 Project and the 1776 CommissionPublic schools are incorporating ‘1619 Project’...
Essential Skills: No Longer About Learning in Oregon
Oregon Senate Bill 744 was recently and quietly signed into law by governor Kate Brown. It states that students “may not be required to show proficiency in Essential Learning Skills as a condition of receiving a high school diploma” in the next three school years. It...
The Manhattan Institute–Classical Education: An Attractive School Choice for Parents
The Manhattan Institute recently released a research brief on the distinctive value of classical Christian education, and why it has become so attractive to parents. The full PDF of the report with end notes is linked at the bottom. Classical Christian education's...
The Equality Act
The Equality Act One of the most important pieces of legislation in our lifetime Read: The Equality Act, H.R. 5Breakpoint: The Equality Act The Heritage Foundation: The Dangers of the Equality Act The Public Discourse: Albert Mohler on the Equality Act The new...
FOR PARENTS
The Art of Wonder
By Hannah K. Grieser Boredom has to be one of the most common complaints of childhood. Once the shock of being born wears off, it doesn’t take long...
Educational Faddism Then and Now
This article from the Epoch Times recounts one father's experience with educational fads, both for himself and for his children. Classical Christian...
FAITH & CULTURE
Seeing Beyond The Day
"EVERYONE WANTS THE APPLES; VERY FEW WANT TO PLANT THE TREE AND WAIT." THE SMALL BEGINNINGS OF A CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE A Christian college...
Welcome to Holy Week: Suffering into Wisdom: Aeschylus, Abraham, Jesus, and Lent
“Outrageous!” the Christian minister cries. “How can you put such pagan filth in front of your seventh graders? How can you possibly justify placing...
COLLEGE
Classical Patricide
Victor Davis Hanson recently wrote an article in The New Criterion titled "Classical Patricide." Both Greece and Rome dominated the world stage for...
A Caution for Parents on College Choice and Critical Race Theory
One of the foundational goals of ACCS schools and the classical method is to prepare students to debate and evaluate ideas, and for this, reasoned...
BOOKS
‘God, Grades, and Graduation’ Review: A Faithful Way to Learn
Religious communities teach the importance of respecting authority and being cooperative. Such lessons can boost classroom performance. A book review by The Wall Street Journal: "Drawing on 10 years of survey data with over 3,000 teenagers and over 200 interviews,...
How the West Was Lost
by Ty Fischer A review of Carl Trueman’s "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self" Have you ever been lost? I mean really lost. As a boy, I misread a map as we were leaving a St.Louis Cardinals game. My dad realized something was wrong when I mentioned that the last...
The Horse and His Boy: The Danger of Totalitarian Ideology
This Side of the Wardrobe Lessons from Literature Series: Part I By Louis Markos Lewis’s fifth novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series is set during the Golden Age of Narnia when the four Pevensie children rule from the four thrones in Cair Paravel. Most of this...
MORE NEWS
Growing Up Surrounded by Books Could Have Powerful, Lasting Effect on the Mind
From Smithsonian Magazine Research suggests that exposure to large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency in three key areas. "The surveys, which were taken between 2011 and 2015, showed that the average number of books in participants’ childhood...
A New Documentary: The Miseducation of America
By David Goodwin, President, ACCS Click here to learn the backstory, read about each episode, and find out how to watch The Miseducation of America. ▸ The Story of Education In 1907, a progressive experiment called the “Gary Plan” was underway in Gary, Indiana, that...
Why I Started a Classical Christian School
For The Gospel Coalition By Daniel David Black Daniel David Black shares the journey of Rochester Classical Academy, a new classical Christian school in Rochester, New York. "In the Association for Classical Christian Schools (ACCS), about 80 percent of classical...
VIDEOS
ACCS Interviews Keith Getty on New Album “Confessio: Irish-American Roots”
Confessio: Irish-American Roots, is a diary of Keith and Kristyn Getty’s past year in Ireland. “Confessio” is from the confession of St. Patrick, which was written while he was a missionary in Ireland, and was turned into a Christian hymn. Listen to Keith’s...
A VIDEO TOUR OF A 1791 NEWSPAPER
At classical Christian schools we believe he best way to read history is to go to the source documents. Enjoy this light, humorous reading of a 1791 Newspaper originally posted in the Journal of the American Revolution. One of the most effective ways to immerse...
Hannah Kim-Winner of the 2021 Chrysostom Oratory Competition: The Mythology of Modern Science
The 2021 First Place Chrysostom Oratory Competition Winner Hannah Kim, from Veritas Classical Academy, Fullerton, CA, presented her winning thesis, “Fact Became Myth: The Mythology of Modern Science” at the Repairing the Ruins conference, June 2021, in Frisco, TX....
