Nation’s Report Card: Student achievement remains below pre-pandemic levels

Is there a mythology surrounding 1776?

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A defense of 1776 challenges modern claims that America’s founding ideals are mythology. By revisiting Jefferson, Aristotle, virtue, and classical learning, it argues that the founding generation understands happiness as moral formation rather than selfish desire, urging readers to recover old books, civic wisdom, and historical memory today...

Nation’s Report Card: Student achievement remains below pre-pandemic levels

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Twenty-one percent of the colleges earned an “F,” largely because they are teaching practices debunked years ago, such as “three-cuing,” where children look at pictures to guess words that they don’t know, the report said. “Failing to prepare future teachers to teach reading well is a form of educational malpractice against...

The story of two Virginians going toe-to-toe on Independence

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Two Virginia founders, Richard Henry Lee and Benjamin Harrison, stand on opposite sides of the independence debate before both sign the Declaration of Independence. Their story reveals clashing strategies, deep family legacies, and the difficult path from hopes of reconciliation to a shared commitment to American liberty and self-government together...

Connecticut declares war on homeschool families

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Connecticut’s new homeschooling restrictions spark alarm among parents and advocates who say House Bill 5468 treats families as suspects before they teach at home. Critics warn mandatory reviews, government oversight, and background checks threaten parental rights, educational freedom, homeschool independence, and similar freedoms across America today in the years ahead...

DOJ investigates schools in California over gender ideology & parental rights

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “This Department of Justice will not tolerate local school authorities trampling on the rights of parents concerning the education of their children,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon. The Justice Department is looking into whether their policies and practices regarding instruction on sexual orientation and gender ideology violate...