The Dean’s List

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Communists and socialists continue to present the West with a dilemma: What should a free society do with people who use the freedoms of speech to advocate for systems that would radically transform, or in some cases abolish, the economic and political order that made those freedoms possible?

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Fewer teens are claiming to be homosexual or bisexual after years of that number rising. “The trends are striking,” Twenge wrote on her blog, especially after comparing them with data from a decade ago. Twenge admitted to having no answer for the decline. “I have to confess: I have no idea.” After comparing the CDC’s data from the...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The mastery of being human requires continuing education for the soul. That’s what you get when you tackle a great book. Lawyers, teachers, and those in other professions must take continuing education courses to certify mastery of content. It got me thinking... what would a course that covered mastery of being human look like?

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – When teachers feel like they don’t matter to their students, families, administrators, and other teachers, the flame of passion begins to die. They’re ready to move on to other career options. The school plays a role in this feeling. Private schools and classical charter schools have a culture that adds meaning to the work teachers are doing. Public schools...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – While some might only look at The Tell-Tale Heart as a horror story, Adler connects it to Aristotle’s Ethics. In this masterpiece, Aristotle argues that wickedness involves ignorance of two things: knowing what one ought to do, and what one ought to avoid. Essentially, knowing right from wrong. Robert M. Woods, a long-time student of Adler...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Homeschool students score significantly higher than the conventional school test norm group (weighted mean percentiles 74 to 82). The researchers noted that “These new data and findings help scholars, educators, policymakers, and the public in evaluating homeschooling’s current outcomes, informing policy debates, and...