The Dean’s List

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Thanking a veteran means more than expressing gratitude on Veterans Day. It means practicing courage, honesty, duty, self-restraint, and perseverance in everyday life. Drawing on ancient Roman virtues, Dean Bowen urges Americans to honor military service by living lives worthy of the freedom veterans defend...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Aristotle believed that all of our suffering and struggles led us to an ultimate purpose for our lives. In other words, we are not mistakes that just happened to appear. We are here for a purpose and discovering what that is can become the mission. There must be some purpose to our lives. If there isn’t, why would we do anything at all? Aristotle argues that all of our...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Dean Bowen examines Google’s shift toward administrator control of classroom AI and its promise to guide students through problems. As critics question the effects on critical thinking, privacy, and search access, schools face a larger challenge: deciding whether AI supports meaningful learning or encourages shortcuts...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Even though test scores have decreased over the past decade, the California Teachers Union convinced voters that education would suffer if the wealth tax didn’t continue. For some reason, California citizens seem convinced that education will improve if they keep taxing their wealthiest citizens into oblivion. The effort behind convincing them of...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Catholic preschools challenge Colorado’s funding rules, arguing that secular exemptions undermine the state’s claim of equal treatment. The Supreme Court dispute tests whether access to public preschool funds can depend on admissions policies that conflict with religious beliefs about marriage, sexuality, and Catholic school identity...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Changes to SAT reading passages raise questions about how colleges define readiness. Dean Bowen examines a comparative study and argues that shorter texts, fewer vocabulary questions, and less emphasis on background knowledge signal a troubling shift, while researchers stop short of judging overall test difficulty...