Articles tagged Common Core Standards
The Common Core State Standards Initiative and Centralized Control: An Idea that Simply Won’t Work
by Robert
Monday, 21 October, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Monday, 21 October, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
“We believe parents are their children’s primary teachers not because parents know everything but because each child is uniquely (and wonderfully!) made and because the people who know and love a child best are the ones most motivated to help that child succeed.”
We...
"Silent Cal" Speaks
Calvin Coolidge’s father, a notary, administered the oath of office to our thirtieth president in their home when President Harding suddenly died. They had neither electricity nor telephone, so that night when the news arrived at the telegraph station, the operator had...
Spontaneous Integration: Jazz Music, Playwrights, and the Cold War
by Jennifer
Tuesday, 02 April, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Tuesday, 02 April, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
What do Shakespeare, actors, newspapers, jazz, and communism all have in common? Continue reading this article to discover how one Challenge III class threaded these disparate ideas together.
Last week in my Challenge III class, we had some spontaneous moments for...
A Response to President Obama’s New Common Core State Standards for Education
In Homer’s Iliad, Achilles refuses to accept gifts from the hand of Agamemnon precisely because he refuses to become “the king’s man." Agamemnon had wronged Achilles—grievously—and to receive his gifts would amount to admitting that it was within Agamemnon’s authority...