Last September, professors at elite American colleges finally began to admit what has been apparent for the last dozen years: Their students cannot read. No, they are not illiterate. But they cannot ...

“I want to teach you something that I bet nobody in your house knows.” Diana Smith stands at the head of a cluttered classroom at Washington Latin Public Charter School. The lights are dimmed, and ...

After decades of mediocre results and skyrocketing spending in American education—lately compounded by unscientific COVID school closures and politicized classrooms—parents, taxpayers, and ...

Rachel was a Visiting Fellow for Heritage’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and the Center for Education Policy. A classical liberal arts education broadens students’ horizons beyond the ...

On November 9, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel of experts to discuss the state of classical education. The group began by defining the term, including its roots in ancient Greece and Rome, its ...

Classical education has become one of the brightest spots in the K–12 landscape. Once a niche movement, it now encompasses more than 1,500 public, private, and charter schools serving nearly 700,000 ...

Close up man hand arranging wood block stacking as step stair on paper pink background. Business concept growth success process, copy space. A 2,500-year-old educational approach is quietly disrupting ...

Classical schools must form aristocrats. As it is, classical education students are being formed into white-collar proletarians who also happen to read Dante on the side and grow seasonal gourds.

Catholic schools in the United States have often been countercultural. Today our schools challenge the dogmatic culture of secularism that's gripping public institutions — and none do so more ...