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Which Way the Wind Blows

FORBIDDEN WORDS AND ACTIONS

John Lyon

Daily we hear of intemperate students demanding this or that “right” drawn from a grab-bag of potential claims on others’ behavior.

An Extraordinary Educator's Enduring Legacy

Christopher Beiting

A review by Christopher Beiting of Francis Bethel, O.S.B's book John Senior and the Restoration of Realism

What If #AhmedIsaFake?

"Clock boy" Ahmed Mohamed may have a promising career ahead of him, not as an engineer or an inventor but as a social agitator and propagandist.

How Pro-Lifers Are Saving Higher Education

THE HUMANITIES' HOLLOW HUMANITY

Jason M. Morgan

The Christian on campus is the only hope for bringing humanity back to the humanities and saving our dying universities.

The Common Core: A Curriculum for Clever Robots

A HOLE WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE

Anthony Esolen

The education of a being with a core, a heart, a life-giving soul, must be connatural with him. It must cherish all things in its deep interior life.

Why Support Catholic Schools?

A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ASKS…

W. Patrick Cunningham

Catholic schools embrace a mission that is illegal in public schools: the embodiment of Jesus Christ in the faculty, staff, students, and their parents.

The Great Catholic Science Textbook Debate

CAN SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY BE SEPARATED?

Murray S. Daw

Any approach to teaching science must begin with certain attitudes and assumptions about the nature of the world around us.

Why Nothing Ever Changes in Public Education

Barbara Nauer

Those in charge merely stir the tepid bath water, having long ago thrown out the precious baby.

Why Christian Parents Should Abandon Public Schools

LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD

Preston Jones

I doubt the government really cares about kids' minds, and I am certain it doesn't care about their morals or their souls.

Teacher's Dirty Books

CHILDREN TRAPPED IN A WEB OF DECEIT

Joseph Collison

A survey of a thousand teenage girls found 82% said they wanted sex-ed to teach them “how to say no” without hurting a guy’s feelings.

Why the System of Public Education Is Irreparable

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS IS FORBIDDEN

Graeme Hunter

We lack belief in the kind of grand narrative that alone can lend coherence to our studies and our lives.

The Corruption of Children's Literature (Even in Catholic Schools)

CHRIST'S LITTLE ONES AT RISK

Inez Fitzgerald Storck

The goodness of God and the trustworthiness of parents are part of a worldview required for the spiritual and psychological integrity of the child.

Our Children, the Public Schools & Our Toxic Culture

IT'S WORSE THAN YOU IMAGINE!

Clare McGrath Merkle

Why Public Schools Have Become Circuses

GUEST COLUMN

Barbara C. Blossom

A Catholic Public-School Teacher Looks at Public Schools

A VIEW FROM THE TRENCHES

James Prothero

The Parental Rights in Education: Who Cares?

GUEST COLUMN

Russell Shaw