How Would You Try to Change the Culture of an Entire Country?
Greg Wilson and Lisa Irving joined Bruce Flanagan in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to help him do just that. Bruce spent 26 years in various capacities —...
Do Classical Christian Schools Create Perfectionist Parents and Students?
We live in a world that celebrates mediocrity and egalitarianism, where no one can judge anyone, and anyone’s truth is as good as anyone else’s. A classical Christian school...
Why I Chose a Classical Christian School After 15 Years Working in Public and Charter Schools
Alex Macdonald began his journey into education teaching in a grammar school in New York. He spent years working with charter schools, pioneering efforts with technology and education, and...
Haphazard or Intentional – Raising the Next Generation with Purpose
Luke Davis up and moved from sunny Florida to the center of the city in Seattle, Washington, with his wife and four young children, with the specific purpose of...
Anxiety Free Learning and Living
Modern education is an education in anxiety. Teaching has largely become a technical trade designed to instill efficiently in students a volume of information so that students will prove...
What is on my kid’s phone?
Today younger and younger aged children carry with them a one-eyed Cyclops screen monster, called a “smart phone” that can immediately connect a young person not only to their...
What You Need to Know About School Accreditation and Certification
In this episode we look at how you can be sure that the school your child is attending is accredited and up to standards. And what about teachers –...
Four years that stick with you for life
What questions should you be considering when evaluating colleges today? What are some of the myths and realities surrounding degrees and careers and where those lead? What kinds of...
K-12 and then to college. Who made this up? Does it even make sense?
John Mark Reynolds is a self professed rule breaker. From his West Virginia upbringings and hard work ethic, he isn’t afraid to innovate and press assumed boundaries. He insists we shouldn’t...
“I was robbed.”
George Grant was successful by all academic accounts and had become a speech writer for well known politicians. But what he realized while working on a masters in political...
My Ugly Is Your Pretty – Beauty Matters
The word “beauty” has gotten a bad rap these days. Modern folks generally toss it aside as an irrelevant and impractical thing, relegated to something soft and impractical, best...
Living and Learning in the Belly of the Beast
Young children should be protected by parents and caregivers, but at some point baby bird has to leave the nest and learn to fly in the “real world.” When to...
Raising Real Women – Wonder Woman or Laura Ingalls?
It isn’t easy to raise a girl today with so many competing voices in our culture, not to mention in our Christian circles. If you are involved in raising...
Why Uniforms? with Rod Gilbert
We’ve all wondered at some point…why do students have to wear uniforms? Does having to conform somehow damage their individuality, or does it actually enhance it? Yes, requiring uniforms...
Latin? What no one told you…
Calculus, computer programming, robotics, STEM classes are all assumed to be the “right choice” for being ready for the jobs of tomorrow. But Latin? That isn’t even a science!...
Marine Commander Who Fought in Benghazi is After Your Kids
Tough as nails Colonel George Bristol has spent 38 years in intense combat missions as a United States Marine in Force Reconnaissance and Special Ops in places like Iraq,...
Is Education Brainwashing?
Propaganda is dangerous stuff. Terrorists and dictators use it but so do marketers, and even schools and universities. It is effective because it most often subtle. Like fish in water, everyone from...
16,000 Hours Later – Two Seniors Survived to Tell the Tale
Across the nation more than 7,000 high school students drop out of school each day, but for those who do make it to graduation day, what is the result...
Mad Scientists! (It’s Bigger Than STEM)
In April 2017, the March for Science rally in 600 cities around the world touted science as a pillar of human freedom and prosperity. In a world of technology...
The Princeton Graduate Unhinged by a 5-Year Old
Howe Whitman was a young dad with a five-year old. He had a prestigious Princeton diploma on the wall and had earned an MBA from The Wharton School (which...
The ‘Teacup Generation’ – is your child at risk?
They quit sports teams when the pressure is on, too much homework leads to tears, a power outage and no internet are anxiety producing. Later in life they are...
What I Learned in a Vietnam Prison about Raising the Next Generation
Bruce Flanagan spent four months in a prison in Hanoi after his humanitarian and ministry work nearly cost him his life. A few years later he was back as...
Why your student should go to a classical Christian high school
A child today will spend some 16,000 hours in school between Kindergarten and their graduation. How should that time be spent to prepare a child for the “real world?”...
I’ve Got 50 Bible Versions on My Phone — Why Memorize It?
Knowing and loving the Bible is something Christian parents know is critical for the spiritual well-being of their children. Yet in a “sound bite” culture, why do we need...