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The Old Schoolhouse, one of homeschooling’s leading magazines, has awarded First Place in Geography to Classical Conversations in its annual Excellence in Education Awards competition for CC’s new book, “Exploring the World Through Cartography.” More than 2,800 homeschooling parents nominated and voted for homeschool curriculum in 52 different categories...
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Southern Pines, North Carolina — Classical Conversations’® student enrollment went over the 115,000-student milestone last month, making it the largest classical homeschooling organization in the world. Classical Conversations’ CEO Robert Bortins announced at CC’s 20th anniversary celebration, Oct. 18, that student registration for the fall had gone over 115,000...
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I have always valued imagination. As a child, I loved pretending that the root of the big tree in the backyard was a crocodile to be avoided in the “river” of dirt surrounding the tree. As a teen I spent summer days writing (bad) poetry instead of cleaning the...
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Audio File Are you a Trekkie or Warsie? As a kid, I was a pure Star Trek fan. Don’t get me wrong, Star Wars is definitely great, but Star Trek will always hold a special place in my heart, I think because it reminds me of my entire family...
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“If you build it, will come,” has become an iconic expression in American culture. For you young’uns, it’s a line from the 1989 film Field of Dreams starring Kevin Costner. In the film, Ray Kinsella, played by Costner, is a struggling farmer who keeps hearing that phrase and decides that...
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SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA— Classical Conversations Inc.® is the world’s largest classical education resource for Christian homeschoolers, and while the vast majority of CC’s 105,000 students live in the United States, the program is actually growing more rapidly in countries like South Africa, Canada and Singapore. “We had about...
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Several Classical Conversations students performed extremely well this year at national speech and debate competitions held by the National Christian Forensics and Communications Association and Stoa, the Christian homeschool speech and debate society. Among those CC students who competed at Stoa’s National Invitational Tournament of Champions May 29-June 3,...
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I feel disconnected, cut off, and isolated. It’s only because my “office away from home” is closed this week. It is the Christian dance studio at which my granddaughter studies ballet, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, etc. and at which my grandsons take acrobatics. There, I get to visit with some...
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Lydia B., #140 in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, successfully spelled her words for the judges in Rounds 2 and 3 on Wednesday, but she and most her fellow spellers failed to advance to the 4th Round due their scores on the preliminary written test that included 12 spelling...
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I have a book on my shelf called “Chase’s Calendar of Events”; it’s the bible of special promotions for marketers and a holdover from my newspaper days. It’s published every year and bills itself as “The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months,” and “The authority since...
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Speller #140 will take the stage Wednesday morning in the nation’s capital as one of 291 finalists to compete in the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee. Over the weekend the 12-year-old and her whole family drove a thousand miles from Iowa, for “Bee Week.” Speller #140, otherwise known as Lydia...
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“To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.” – John Calvin Like you, I regularly pray for those I love, and like most parents, my prayers for my children are especially fervent. I pray for all...
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