Recently, the Lancaster paper has covered a little tempest in the Eastern Lancaster County School District (Elanco). (For full disclosure, I am a friend of and have a lot of respect for the Elanco ... Read More
What Our Faire County is Great!
The attached story is a sign (a small "s" sacrament) of what I find in Lancaster County. Lancastrians are helpful. They help each other. They help strangers. They help people all over the world. ... Read More
To the Mission Field Anyone
I am intrigued by the TED talks. Here is one that might be controversial. It advocates an undercutting approach to terrorism (fighting for the hearts and minds of the people who support terrorism ... Read More
Value Added Scores Go Up
There is more data out on the local schools. This data is from the Pennsylvania Value Added Assessment System. Here is the article:
Read MoreThe Speed of Cultural Change
You might have missed this because of amount of information whipping by, but California just made it illegal to counsel a homosexual minor in a way that encourages them that they can change. Here ... Read More
PSSA Problem
Here is a link to an opinion piece in today's Lancaster Intelligencer. It criticizes the PSSA testing:
Read MoreNo Country for Regular Children
I had an interesting conversation with a father of grown children recently. He mentioned how his family moved around the county to find the right schools for his children. He asserted this (I am ... Read More
Question on the Great Books
Classical Christian Education and Catholic Schools
There is an interesting article on the First Things blog about the growth of classical Christian education amongst Catholics. Here is the articles:
Read MoreThe Beginning and the End
It has been a wonderful summer and I can not wait to get back to work!
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