By David Goodwin, President, ACCS Click here to learn the backstory, read about each episode, and...
CLASSICAL 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 Schools Cut Through the Culture Wars
A recent article in Newsweek reminds its readers: Schools have a profound effect on the values...
FROM “THE DIFFERENCE”
The Art of Wonder
By Hannah K. Grieser Boredom has to be one of the most common complaints of childhood. Once the...
Wired for Beauty
By MICHAEL CRAVEN Reprinted with permission from Breakpoint and the Colson Fellows Program. The...
All The World’s A Stage
By Thomas Garfield Brian wasn’t having any of it! As the rest of his first-grade class confidently...
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
A New Documentary: The Miseducation of America
By David Goodwin, President, ACCS Click here to learn the backstory, read about each episode, and...
FROM “THE DIFFERENCE”
The Art of Wonder
By Hannah K. Grieser Boredom has to be one of the most common complaints of childhood. Once the...
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...
Why I Started a Classical Christian School
For The Gospel Coalition By Daniel David Black Daniel David Black shares the journey of Rochester...
Wired for Beauty
By MICHAEL CRAVEN Reprinted with permission from Breakpoint and the Colson Fellows Program. The...
Kindergartners and Chicken Eggs
NOTE FROM A HEADMASTER Christopher Stevens, Cornerstone Classical School, Salina, KS Every year...
Classical Schools Cut Through the Culture Wars
A recent article in Newsweek reminds its readers: Schools have a profound effect on the values...
All The World’s A Stage
By Thomas Garfield Brian wasn’t having any of it! As the rest of his first-grade class confidently...
A Video Facebook Refuses to Post
Facebook censors a video posted by ACCS member The Saint Constantine School in Houston, TX: The...
A Princess Without a King
By David Goodwin How Hollywood lost its way Have you noticed how the stories in our most popular story form—the movies—have paled in recent years? In 2019, the top 10 movies were: Avengers Endgame (sequel), The Lion King (remake), Frozen II (sequel), Toy Story 4...
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?
Q: We live in rural America. We love it, and so do our kids. Classical education seems very much like a prep school with the uniforms, the uppity...
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
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...
A Promise to America’s Children
A Promise to America's Children We Will Put Their Needs First From Breakpoint “Public schools can be bad, but we have good schools in our neighborhood.” This sentiment is familiar to those who call parents to Christian education. If we need another proof point,...
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
Wired for Beauty
By MICHAEL CRAVEN Reprinted with permission from Breakpoint and the Colson Fellows Program. The poet Billy Collins once quipped that “all babies are...
Joy to the World: An Accidental Classic
"Joy to the World" one of the most iconic and recognizable Christmas hymns, was not written to be a Christmas hymn or even a song. Read the...
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
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...
Fault Lines: A Social Justice Vaccine
By Ty Fischer A deadly virus. A novel population. Mitigation efforts fail. Churches divide. The body count grows. Some lock their families away in hopes of avoiding illness. Classical Christian schools have not been immune, having witnessed some of their best and...
MORE NEWS
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 Education, although unique, is neither new, nor a fad. It has been tried and proven true for the last two millennia. A...
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...
Classical Schools Cut Through the Culture Wars
A recent article in Newsweek reminds its readers: Schools have a profound effect on the values instilled in children. It goes on to say that in an ideal world, schools would cut through partisan battles, ensuring some set of consistent values and focusing on the goal...
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....
