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Aug 15, 2017

The Year of Bold

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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Aug 09, 2017

The Home School as Monastery

Saint Benedict (480-547) lived in an era of decline in the Roman Empire. He realized that it was growing difficult to practice true Christianity given the cultural temperature of his day. Instead of falling prey to the weaknesses his society suffered from, Benedict “retreated” to establish a series of...

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Aug 04, 2017

Enriching Your Child’s Preschool Years

The preschool years offer an incredible opportunity to set the tone of your homeschooling relationship with your child. They are a season in which to cultivate a relationship characterized by mutual delight and trust. They are a time for learning through play. They are a time to engage in...

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Aug 01, 2017

A Glorious Journey

Audio File I, along with the majority of classically educating homeschool parents, received a modern education in public K-12 schools. Most of us are making the choice to provide our children with an unknown yet compelling classical Christian education. We are together in a crucible of modern culture using...

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Jul 28, 2017

What is Common Core Education?

Who wouldn’t want a world where every student has the same curriculum, homework, reading and lessons? The problem is that this “one size fits all” standard places emphasis on the wrong educational goals and fundamentally challenges individual rights, local control, school choice and federalism.

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Jul 23, 2017

If the Lord Builds the House

“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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Jul 20, 2017

Woods, Words, and Wonders

Our 2017 Parent Practicum speaker probably thought I was taking diligent notes. Certainly, I was scribbling furiously as he spoke of doxology and of angels continuously awed into reverent exclamation. Holy, holy, holy! Perhaps he would have been more flattered even, to know that I was penning song lyrics. The ideas...

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Classical Conversations expands rapidly overseas

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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