Hear George Sanker’s personal story of growing up in a poor inner city neighborhood in Washington DC while attending predominantly white schools and the impact each community had on him. George Sanker George Sanker serves as Headmaster of… Continue Reading
Articles & Essays
Articles & Essays
Running a school in 2020 can feel like signing up to run a marathon and then being informed during mile 25 of 26 that one is only half way done! School has started back but leaders are dealing with anything but normal. The ongoing demands… Continue Reading
We are in more than the education business. We are co-laborers with parents and churches in the student development business. And whether we like it or not the swirl of a pandemic, urban and racial unrest, not to mention general life, work… Continue Reading
During the pandemic the need for fundraising dollars has increased but our ability to raise funds in the “typical” event driven way has been eliminated causing fear within the leadership of our schools. During this presentation evidence of… Continue Reading
he final book in the Chronicles of Narnia, The Last Battle, paints a provocative political scenario. A talking ape dresses up a talking donkey in a lion skin to impersonate Aslan. The ape hopes to rule Narnia by using the lion-donkey as… Continue Reading
Success in mathematics requires a variety of skills, all of which are perfectly situated within classical Christian schools. Classical Christian educators can use God’s Word to help students develop these skills. Recognizing the good… Continue Reading
Though I have not finished reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, its contours already feel intimately familiar. Many science fiction stories since then seem to have borrowed either slightly or generously from that 1932 cautionary tale… Continue Reading
Louis Markos Louis Markos holds a BA in English and History from Colgate University and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Michigan. He is a Professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University, where he… Continue Reading
Picture a city, established long ago through the wisdom and virtue of those who founded and built it, but gradually weakened by the long neglect of that wisdom andvirtue. Now it finds itself assaulted by a tyrannical and temperamental… Continue Reading
For several years now, Latin has been making a steady and decided comeback. Not just classical schools, but private schools of various stripe as well as some suburban public schools, inner-city schools, and everything in between have Latin… Continue Reading
You’re sitting on an uncomfortable plastic bench. You rest “spreading” (speed reading) and technical debate jargon. your arms on an equally uncomfortable plastic table. You The bad habits acquired through participation in these note the… Continue Reading
The Bible is rich with teachings about the work of our words, from lines of poetry to pastoral exhortation, from wisdom proverbs to prophetic utterances. The psalmists remind us that the tongue and lips are for the praise of God and not… Continue Reading