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Sabbath-keeping in Christian schools
Sundays are my favorite holidays. New Year’s Day, Easter, even Christmas pale in comparison. Unlike other holidays, particularly those of the man-made variety, the Sabbath is a tradition divinely consecrated and nearly as old as creation itself (Exodus 20:11). When we remember the Sabbath, we celebrate our freedom from bondage (Deuteronomy 5:15). By contrast, it’s…
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Christian schools and COVID: Leading the way
Last month, University of Louisiana professor Michael B. Henderson and Harvard University professors Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West released the findings of their COVID reopenings report. Their study’s sample is a nationally representative one of over 2,000 American families with children in traditional public, public charter, and private schools. When considered alongside ACSI’s…
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Leadership for flourishing schools
Because of their biblically-based philosophy of education, Christian schools ground their vision and mission in Scripture. Based on the scriptural truth that God desires to bless his people and cause them to flourish (Psalm 44:2; 52:8; 72:7, 16; 92:12-13), ACSI Research set out in 2018-2019 to understand the ways in which Christian schools can flourish.…
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Nationwide data on Christian schools yields 2020-2021 profile
Over 730 Christian schools participated in ACSI’s third nationwide survey of Christian schools’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings showed that the vast majority of Christian schools reopened in-person this fall and did so safely and comprehensively. The report, which can be accessed here, shares survey data on enrollment trends, COVID disruption, distance-learning planning and…
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New research finds evidence linking Protestant school attendance and strong marriages
If education research is a beachhead of pebbles examining test scores, graduation rates, and employment outcomes, a study linking education with the understudied, yet critically important outcome of marriage, is a rare and precious jewel. In a new report for the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies, Albert Cheng, Patrick Wolf, Wendy…
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In defense of homeschooling
In their May-June 2020 issue, Harvard Magazine published an article by Erin O’Donnell titled “The Risks of Homeschooling.” Harvard law professor Elizabeth Bartholet, quoted extensively throughout the article, “recommends a presumptive ban on the practice,” claiming that homeschooling violates children’s rights and inculcates conservative Christian, anti-scientific, misogynist, and racist views. Homeschooling in Arkansas has grown…
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Homeschooling: Innocent until proven guilty
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” — C.S. Lewis What prompted Cevin Soling, Freedman-Martin fellow in journalism at Harvard’s Kennedy School, to choose this warning as he introduced an event at Harvard earlier this month? The “tyranny sincerely exercised” is the presumptive ban…
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Harvard law professor’s attack on homeschool is a flawed failure. And terribly timed, too.
The May-June issue of Harvard Magazine carries an article, “The Risks of Homeschooling,” promoting the argument of Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Bartholet that the U.S. should enact “a presumptive ban” on homeschooling. Homeschooling is essentially unregulated, Bartholet argues, and many parents adopt this method of educating their children for nefarious reasons including indoctrinating the parents’…
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Must bear witness: Studying the Holocaust
When the Ohrdruf concentration camp was liberated in 1944, Dwight D. Eisenhower insisted on visiting the camp in person. This visit was important, as he later wrote, because it would put him “in a position to give firsthand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations…
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Freedom is central to civics
Aleita Cook, a student at Providence Career & Technical Academy, and 13 of herpeers have joined in a class action lawsuit against Rhode Island on the groundsthat the system failed to provide them with an adequate civics education, whichthey claim is a violation of their constitutional rights. The students may win their case, but in…
Matthew H. Lee 