The End of Civilization?
by Mark BauerleinTracy Lee Simmons joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss his book Being Civilized. Continue Reading »
The K–12 Education Renaissance
by Jeremy Wayne TateClassical K–12 alternatives are rapidly expanding while conventional schools struggle with an enrollment decline not seen since World War II. Continue Reading »
The Genius of Ivan Illich
by Brian C. AndersonIvan Illich’s star once burned brightly. From the late sixties through the mid-seventies—when his influence was greatest—this learned Roman Catholic became a countercultural guru, notorious for facing a 1968 Vatican inquisition that led him to cease exercising his priesthood, though he . . . . Continue Reading »
Homeschoolers and Ideologues
by Samuel D. JamesHarvard professor Elizabeth Bartholet seems to think that only public schools are capable of creating responsible, mature, informed citizens. Continue Reading »
A Quarantine Syllabus for Teenage Boys
by Mark BauerleinNo matter how energetic and vigilant the teachers are in this time of seclusion, hours at home can't replicate the classroom. Continue Reading »
Why My Friends Don’t Like Homeschooling
by Matthew HennesseyMy wife homeschools our seven-year-old daughter, so I read with sympathy David Mills’ piece in the January issue of First Things on the suspicion he encounters when discussing publicly the homeschooling of his two children. Opting out of the public education system feels a bit like jumping off a moving train. As you tumble down the side of the embankment and struggle to gain your footing, passengers on the still-moving train crane their necks and crowd to the windows to stare at you with wide eyes and slack jaws…. Continue Reading »
Meanwhile, Back in the First Communion Classroom . . .
by Sally ThomasWe’ve been making great use of this striking coloring book, from the Hillside Education imprint. This isn’t so much a coloring book in the usual sense as simply a book of reproducible coloring pages, which feature intricate stained-glass-effect images of saints for every month of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Nurturing Culture: Homeschoolers and the Reading Life
by Sally ThomasAs I was regaling you all with our booklists the other week, it occurred to me to ask some of my homeschooling friends for theirs, and then to go looking for more. While I don’t think there’s any such thing as “homeschooling culture,” as a unified entity, what I observe among . . . . Continue Reading »
More Homeschool Reading and Resources
by Sally ThomasWe start Monday, and not a moment too soon, in my view. I’ve spent the last two days scheduling everyone’s reading and other work from now till Christmas, using the lesson-plan feature at Homeschool Reporting, the record-keeping service to which we’ve subscribed since the . . . . Continue Reading »
Addendum
by Sally ThomasForgot one item on the teenager’s reading list for this year: How to Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler and Charles van Doren. When I handed her the book, she took one look at the title, laughed, and said, “Don’t you think it’s a little late for that?” . . . . Continue Reading »
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