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December 1 – Classical Schools and the Generational Struggle with Technology: Abuse
by John Heaton
Robert Littlejohn, Ph.D. Dr. Robert Littlejohn holds a doctorate in biology. In 1991 he founded New Covenant Schools and served for seven years as its first headmaster. He is currently the acting head of school at Trinity Academy in Raleigh, NC. This article is re-published with his permission ...
November 26 – Classical Schools and the Generational Struggle with Technology: Instruction
by John Heaton
Robert Littlejohn, Ph.D. Instruction Among the unfortunate misconceptions that conventional educators and the popular media have cultivated among today’s parents is that student access to technology in the classroom guarantees better learning. A Christian School in our area is advertising ...
November 21 – Classical Schools and the Generational Struggle with Technology: Communication
by John Heaton
Robert Littlejohn, Ph.D. Dr. Robert Littlejohn holds a doctorate in biology. In 1991 he founded New Covenant Schools and served for seven years as its first headmaster. He is currently the acting head of school at Trinity Academy in Raleigh, NC. This article is re-published with his permission ...
November 12 – Classical Pedagogy Works for Writing
by Marion Patterson
by Marion Patterson The October, 2012 edition of The Atlantic brims with election articles, as a reasonable reader might expect, but its “Special Report” is entitled “American Schools: A national report card, plus some simple and surprising solutions.” In this section an article by Peg ...
July 19 – A Coherent Curriculum
by John Heaton
In this post we’re discussing a central feature of our school,the curriculum. One of the most important questions we could ask of any curriculum is this: “Does the curriculum cohere?” To put it a different way, we’re asking if the curriculum progresses in developmentally appropriate ways, ...
May 2 – Forty Years From Now
by John Heaton
(Disclaimer: I've attended several senior thesis defenses this spring and all of them have been impressive. I have a gaggle of seniors over here that continually inspire me. My comments that follow single out one of them, but they are not intended as uneven praise. The student in question is not ...
March 16 – Latin: Old, Difficult & Worthless
by John Heaton
by Peter Joslyn Because of our own language’s profound debt to the Latin, the young student of Latin can begin to “translate” English, often without the need of a dictionary. A working knowledge of simple Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes, will enable a 13-year old student to ascertain the ...
February 9 – Banning Private Schools: A Response to David McLoughlin
by John Heaton
In his February 1 letter David McLoughlin praises Warren Buffet as "a wise old man with values." Such high praise is offered because, in addition to supporting higher taxes, Mr. Buffet wishes to "ban private schools so the rich would be forced to invest in the public system." Apparently Mr. ...
Fractured Skill: Contemporary Education’s Aversion to Skillful Thought
by John Heaton
Notes on The Craftsman by Richard Sennett. Yale University Press, 2008 Note 002. 06.17.10 - Fractured Skill: Contemporary Education's Aversion to Skillful Thought We who labor in classical education find ourselves in the odd position of having to defend pedagogies that employ routine and ...