by office | Jul 19, 2019 | Archives, Free Content
When Edward and Michelle Trudeau’s daughter, Anya, enrolled in St. Jerome Academy’s sixth grade after years of classical homeschooling, she was a bit nervous about her first standardized test. The format was alien to her. As her parents tell it, they did not know what...
by office | Jun 6, 2019 | Archives
In Western society, music education has been valued since the beginning precisely because, as Plato wrote in the 4th century BC, it penetrates deeply into the mind and takes a most powerful hold on it, and, if education is good, brings and imparts grace and beauty,...
by office | Apr 9, 2019 | Archives, Member School Content
Jessie Van Hecke, a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and a Kindergarten and First Grade teacher at St. Augustine Academy in Ventura, California, credits her liberal education at Thomas Aquinas College with introducing her to classical views of education and the...
by office | Feb 17, 2019 | Archives, Free Content
Michael S. Moynihan (Excerpted with permission from The Heights website. The original article can be found here.) In our times, entertainments of choice, especially for school age children and young adults, are primarily electronic: video games, television, movies,...
by office | Feb 10, 2019 | Archives, Member School Content
Classical Assessment, Yesterday and Today In a series of imagined dialogues, Blessed John Henry Newman, one the greatest authors of nineteenth century England, gave an account of his University’s entrance tests. These oral examinations sought to determine how well...
by office | Jan 9, 2019 | Archives, Member School Content
Jennifer Thomas has taught history and literature to high school and junior high students in Catholic schools for twenty-five years. During that time, including a three-year stint at an inner city diocesan school in the Oakland diocese, she has “never seen a student...
