by office | Dec 1, 2022 | Free Content, In Practice, Science
The Science Content Standards for California Public Schools proposes that the science curriculum has as its goal forming “scientifically literate citizens in the twenty-first century.” This means that by the time students graduate from high school, they should...
by office | Aug 1, 2022 | Free Content
What Few Are Talking about but What is Absolutely Necessary for Authentic Educational Reform— In our times, entertainments of choice, especially for school age children and young adults, are primarily electronic: video games, television, movies, music, and certain...
by office | Apr 22, 2022 | Free Content, History
Restoring the Catholic Historical Imagination” — my title for this paper — is itself problematic. Why should anyone want to restore an imagination of history, that record of what J.R.R. Tolkien called “the long defeat”? At first glance, ancient history...
by office | Feb 23, 2022 | Archives, Member School Content
J.R.R. Tolkien once suggested that the great desire of Elves was to realize “imagined wonder” so powerfully that they and their hearers could almost forget the story wasn’t real. Many readers, especially the young, find themselves gripped almost that powerfully by...
