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Learning is Natural — Early Education

Jessie Van Hecke, a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and a Kindergarten and First Grade teacher at St. Augustine ...

By: ICLE Staff

Valedictorians Reveal Their Schools

Valedictorians Reveal Their Schools

One should expect to learn a lot about a school through the quality of its valedictory addresses. What do its best ...

By: ICLE Staff

Bringing the True, Good, and Beautiful into Math Class

Bringing the True, Good, and Beautiful into Math Class

When the Institute offers workshops on classical education or the Catholic intellectual tradition, math teachers ...

By: Dr. Andrew Seeley

Exciting Students About Great Literature

Jennifer Thomas has taught history and literature to high school and junior high students in Catholic schools for ...

By: By Andrew Seeley

Learning to Read the Scriptures

In his classic work on Scriptural interpretation, St. Augustine encourages students of Scripture to learn all the ...

By: By Andrew Seeley

Connecting with our Past: Why We Need a Strong Sense of History

Walking the streets of Old City Philadelphia last month was a thrilling experience for me. I have always loved ...

By: By Andrew Seeley

Magnificat

I have many reasons for wanting to recommend the monthly magazine,Magnificat. Magnificat is a powerful tool for ...

Word on Fire

In the early days of television, Venerable Fulton Sheen mastered the great power of the new medium to evangelize, ...

Presenting What Is Beautiful: The Joyful Duty of Catholic Education

“Too late have I loved Thee, O Beauty, ever ancient, ever new!” St. Augustine was in his forties by the time he ...

What Makes a School Catholic?

Catholic parents are usually grateful that their children are enrolled in Catholic schools.  Often they punctuate ...

By: by Curtis L. Hancock

Catholic Philosophy of Education

"[Catholic schooling] rests on a truth about the human person; a truth radiating out of the Gospel"

BTT Rhetoric Intro

As the school year comes to an end, we decided to devote an issue of Beyond the Test to rhetoric, which was often ...

By: By Andrew Seeley