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 | May 25, 2019 | Member School Content
Of the classes I can recall from high school, among the most tedious was sophomore history. History class with Mr. Faulmann (an alias) was almost invariably the same. On an overhead projector, he would place an outline of the chapter he had assigned us to read and...
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 | Mar 13, 2019 | Member School Content
How should a Catholic think about the scientific discoveries, theories and uses that almost dominate contemporary culture? For some, science has such a sacred aura that any scientific report is accepted with a kind of false faith as “Gospel” truth. For others, science...
by office | Mar 2, 2019 | Free Content
One should expect to learn a lot about a school through the quality of its valedictory addresses. What do its best students speaking at the most important event of their lives to date want to share about their experience? What made their time at school memorable? What...
by office | Feb 24, 2019 | Free Content
When the Institute offers workshops on classical education or the Catholic intellectual tradition, math teachers seem to be the hardest to reach. Religion, Literature, Art, & Music teachers quickly recognize that their subjects provide great opportunities for...
