Online K-12 education is certainly not ideal, but for teachers and families across the country it’s sometimes the only option. What can we do to make the most of it?
Making the Most of Online Learning
Category: Classical Education
Treating Students with Respect: Jordan Adams’s Remarks at the White House Conference on American History
America’s founders rightly reminded us that the ultimate determinant of our success as a nation would be our ability to sustain a virtuous and well-educated citizenry. The dangerous state of American history education today is about to prove the founders right yet again. Restoring the true teaching of American history would give our young people and our nation a fighting chance to turn the tide, preserving their American inheritance for another generation.
Recovering American History
A look at last week’s panel on the teaching of American history at the National Archives, featuring Wilfred S. McClay and Jordan Adams from Hillsdale College’s Barney Charter School Initiative.
What’s lost in online learning?
K-12 schools all over the country are facing the possibility of continuing remote learning this coming fall. Perhaps this is necessary in some parts of the country. But what will it mean for our students, their academic progress, and the way we think about K-12 education?
Quick Tips for Classical Education at Home: Science
Here's Becky Holland, Director of Curriculum and Instruction for the Barney Charter School Initiative and a former science teacher, with some tips for keeping your child's science education going at home.
How Bar Modeling Makes Word Problems Easy in Singapore Math
To help teachers and parents understand Singapore math, I've been writing about how although it can seem difficult at first, it's actually a common-sense approach to mathematics that really gets results. Before you read this post, take a look at an introduction to Singapore math here. One of the most recognizable parts of Singapore math… Continue reading How Bar Modeling Makes Word Problems Easy in Singapore Math
Quick Tips for Classical Education at Home: Math
This week and next we're featuring a few simple things students can do to continue their classical education in each subject: literature, history, math, science, art, music, and PE. So, you're at home for the foreseeable future with your young math student. The textbooks are complicated, and on top of that you have responsibilities of… Continue reading Quick Tips for Classical Education at Home: Math
Education at home for working parents
Joy Pullman is the executive editor of The Federalist, the author of this list of classic children's books to read at home, and the mother of five. In the latest episode of Hillsdale's K-12 Classical Education podcast, she tackles the challenge of classical education at home for working parents.
Parents, the first teachers
The circumstances we find ourselves in might not be so crazy after all. Parents, you've been teaching your children since they were born. You can do this.
Why Singapore math?
Parents of students who are new to classical schools know that Singapore math is unlike any math curriculum they’re used to. Why? What makes it so different, and why is Singapore math so popular in homeschooling circles and classical schools?
