A huge thank you to Diane Ravitch for this thoughtful article! ~ Angelicum Americans may be reading online, but that’s not literature. Without the great authors, where are the great thoughts? Five years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) issued an alarming report called Reading at Risk, which declared that literary reading was [...]
End the University as We Know It By MARK C. TAYLOR GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is20diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields [...]
One of our parents sent us this article. She said she witnessed children teaching themselves Gaelic in Ireland just by watching the Teletubbies in Gaelic only. The True Origins of Slumdog Millionaire: The Hole-in-the-Wall Project, An Experiment in Slum/Village Education (Free Article) In 1999, a computer expert in India thought up an experiment. His office [...]
Check out the award winning videos below by our Great Books Student, Hunter Gill. Hunter won 3rd place with C-SPAN’s StudentCam 2010 competition. Congratulations on a job well done!
Our free online magazine, Classical Homeschooling has recently been updated to make viewing the articles easier to find and read. Many members of the Great Books Academy have submitted articles to this magazine over the course of the past ten years. To visit the site, please click here. Below are some of the distinguished contributors [...]
I live in Alaska, the 49th state in the winter. I stay with my cool grandpa in a small village called the Nikiski. Alaska is the most northern state in the United States and the weather can be very cold in the winter. My favorite spot in Alaska is my Grandpa’s log cabin in the [...]
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY A large majority of high school students say their class work is not very difficult, and almost two-thirds say they would work harder if courses were more demanding or interesting, according to an online nationwide survey of teenagers conducted by the National Governors Association. The survey, being released on Saturday by the [...]
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GENUINE EDUCATIONAL REFORM: by Curtis L. Hancock, Ph.D. Homeschooling In his tragicomic essay, “The Great Liberal Death-Wish,” Malcolm Muggeridge, recounts the following experience: On radio and television panels, on which I have spent more time than I care to remember, to questions such as: What does the panel think should be done [...]
