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Jul 08, 2019

Challenge III student earns CLT National Award

A Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, high school student posted one of the highest scores on the Classical Learning Test this summer, earning a National Award and a $2,500 scholarship. The CLT is a nationally-standardized college entrance exam designed for students who have been classically educated. Each student who posts one of...

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May 22, 2019

Play to Learn, Play to Live

When you’re young, school is your job. When you’re even younger, play is your school and your job. I like to think I attended a highly acclaimed “school” and landed a top-notch “job.”   As I’ve mentioned in articles before, my family was poor when I was a kid...

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May 05, 2019

Marietta boy wins N2K math championship

Georgia – Tyler T., won the 2019 National Number Knockout (N2K) championship on May 1, including the $10,000 prize, and $2,000 for his mother and teacher, Janice, who accompanied him on the cruise. To the uninitiated ear, the answers sound like gibberish—faster than an auctioneer. But Tyler not only knows...

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Apr 24, 2019

Principles First: The Way to Freedom

by Jill Philbrick   Godly principles abound in math!   Do you have to know every single math equation in the whole wide world as individual pieces of knowledge? No! We learn the rules, we study the questions, and then we can approach any equation to apply the facts we have...

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Mar 15, 2019

Painting the Apple on the Table

I am the son of an artist. As is the case for many artists, creating artifacts rarely pays the bills, but teaching art does, hence, I am the son of an art teacher: an artist who taught his skills instead of plying his wares.   Being the art teacher...

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The Shape of a Sonnet

  Before reading the following article, please read this sonnet out loud:                       Sonnet 18 By William Shakespeare   Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the...

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Jan 10, 2019

School Choice Week expects over 40,000 celebrations

Southern Pines, North Carolina — National School Choice Week, Jan. 20-26, has rapidly become the world’s largest education-related public awareness effort. Sponsored by Homeschool Now USA, National School Choice Week has grown from 150 events in 2011 to over 32,000 in 2018, according to Andrew Campanella, president of National...

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Nov 27, 2018

Classical Education and the Artsy Kid

by Elizabeth Morales “Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”  ~Rabindranath Tagore   The pursuit of classical education is to seek the good, the true, and the beautiful. I heard this saying all through my high school years in Classical Conversations. The...

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