Christian schools have better outcomes for both academics and character than their publicly funded counterparts. Some brush this off by saying that private school kids simply have better parents. It's nothing the school does, the idea goes, but it's that the kind of people who put their children in Christian school have more money, more … Continue reading Why Christian Schools Cultivate Better Results Than Public Schools Do
6 Big Benefits To Starting Your Child In An Excellent Christian School
Christians prize children as precious souls made in God’s image whom God deemed worthy of sacrificing himself to redeem eternally. So a Christian school and culture aims to imitate Christ by taking great care for the all students, even the smallest. The youngest students are not merely biding time with make-work until their brains develop … Continue reading 6 Big Benefits To Starting Your Child In An Excellent Christian School
Why A Christian Education Is Built Upon The Ways We Worship
How we think about distinctively Christian education would not be primarily a matter of sorting out which Christian ideas to drop into eager and willing mind receptacles; rather, it would become a matter of thinking about how a Christian education shapes, us, forms us, molds us to be a certain kind of people whose hearts … Continue reading Why A Christian Education Is Built Upon The Ways We Worship
Watch This 97-Second Video To Understand How ‘Classical’ Enhances Christian Education
Christian classical educators believe that our faith's major ideas about the world ought to deeply affect how our schools look and what they do, far beyond simply adding (very good!) practices such as Bible reading and chapel attendance on top an essentially secular base. Our faith's "first principles" ought to permeate everything we do. That … Continue reading Watch This 97-Second Video To Understand How ‘Classical’ Enhances Christian Education
Rod Dreher: Parents Need To Be Strategic To Pass On Their Faith To Their Kids
The American Conservative's Rod Dreher has been writing for a long time about how Christian parents, pastors, and teachers need to stop assuming that our secular culture will do anything but fight their efforts to pass on their faith to the next generation. Despite America's deep Christian heritage, younger Americans are increasingly drifting away from … Continue reading Rod Dreher: Parents Need To Be Strategic To Pass On Their Faith To Their Kids
Esolen: Public-School Curriculum With A Jesus Sticker Doesn’t Cut It
I (Joy) have had a decent amount of experience reviewing curriculum in a wide variety of schools, from teaching, giving seminars, visiting schools as a reporter, interviewing for teaching jobs, and while working in the admissions department at my alma mater. It's lead me to the conclusion that most religious schools offer essentially the same … Continue reading Esolen: Public-School Curriculum With A Jesus Sticker Doesn’t Cut It
Redeemer Classical School 