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Ten Great Christian Books
by Martin Cothran My new article, “Ten Great Christian Books,” is up at Memoria Press’ website: This is a list, not of the ten greatest Christian novels, since I haven’t read all the Christian novels ever written, but at least ten of the greatest. Any one of these would make a Read more…
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The Rise of Modern Education
by Paul Schaeffer
I was recently reading an article arguing that technology will eventually replace public education. While I disagree with some of the author’s premises and his conclusion (he ignores human nature), his analysis of how we got to where we are in education was utterly fascinating: (more…)
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Herman Melville’s Literary Imagination
by Brett Vaden
A friend once said to me, “I don’t know how you literature teachers do it—finding stuff to talk about in class.” He, like many people, was mystified by the subject matter of literature. What does a literature teacher teach students? (more…)
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Highest ACT in Louisville for Highlands Latin School Graduating Class
According to Louisville Magazine, Highlands Latin School had the highest ACT scores of any other school in Jefferson County, Kentucky: (more…)
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School System Realizes Discipline is Important
A recent opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal makes the seemingly obvious assertion that students should be required to “sit up and pay attention.” The success the author, Eva Moskowitz, has had with underpriveliged children in New York using this philosophy highlights the truth of the assertion. Read the article Read more…
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Ipad woes in Los Angeles schools should be a warning to the rest of us
by Martin Cothran
The education technology train wreck in the Los Angeles Unified School District should serve as a lesson to schools on the inadvisability of trying to throw technology at education problems. It’s hard to fathom the mindset of people who think that simply distributing iPads will solve the education woes of school.
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Tech startup CEO tells why he isn’t looking for computer science majors
How many times have you been asked why you’re teaching so much Latin and literature in your school and so little computer science?
One response is to point out that the thinking skills you get from studying an inflected grammar and the interpersonal skills you learn from literature are far more useful. But here’s another perspective from a tech CEO, who says that tech education, even at some of our most prestigious schools, doesn’t make graduates any more attractive to him: (more…)
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Grammar and the Fall of Education
From the excellent Imaginative Conservative blog: “Dionysios Thrax, an ancient Greek grammarian, outlined the hierarchical structure of grammar from the least to the greatest. He began with prosody, followed by an understanding of literary devices, followed by considerations of phraseology enhanced by etymology. At the upper reaches of grammar we find analogy and metaphor, followed by the highest aspect of grammar: the art of exegesis.” (more…)