Education

Point Loma Nazarene goes wokeDean tells students that if their identity was “in Christ alone,” they “have white privilege”

Point Loma Nazarene goes woke
Dean tells students that if their identity was “in Christ alone,” they “have white privilege”

Some Point Loma Nazarene University alumni are raising concerns about the Christian university’s dean of students, alleging he told student leaders that identifying as being “in Christ alone” reflected “white privilege.” The controversy centers on PLNU Dean […]

Sanger High parents not thrilled with Reedley CollegeCoat-hanger abortion, strap-on genetalia in art class

Sanger High parents not thrilled with Reedley College
Coat-hanger abortion, strap-on genetalia in art class

A California school district near Fresno recently promised to provide parents with more information on dual enrollment college courses after a summer art class showed students as young as 14 a display that included a bloody abortion and sexually explicit […]

Math and Latin are the most important subjectsAuthor of the Catholic School Playbook gives advice in the most recent TAC Podcast

Math and Latin are the most important subjects
Author of the Catholic School Playbook gives advice in the most recent TAC Podcast

Dean Emeritus of Thomas Aquinas College John Goyette held a 42-minute podcast with Mike Ortner, founder of Capterra (business software online marketplace) and author of Catholic School Playbook. Introductory comments: Goyette: “One of the things […]

Bishop O’Dowd High removes Pride flagsReplaces them with the 'Inclusive O'

Bishop O’Dowd High removes Pride flags
Replaces them with the 'Inclusive O'

After the Diocese of Oakland asked one of its Catholic high schools to remove pride flags displayed on campus, the school replaced them with a new rainbow-colored symbol meant to affirm its “LGBTQ+” community. Bishop O’Dowd High […]

Catholic geeks mull over Leo’s encyclical in MontebelloIs Claude really better than Gemini?

Catholic geeks mull over Leo’s encyclical in Montebello
Is Claude really better than Gemini?

Participants at the 17th annual Catholic Communication Collaboration (C3) Conference were still riding a wave of momentum two months after the release of Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity), Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the time of […]

USC – unlikely hotbed of CatholicsPastor is a Trojan himself

USC – unlikely hotbed of Catholics
Pastor is a Trojan himself

A growing hotspot for college students in Los Angeles used to mean a bar or a trendy coffee shop. But at the University of Southern California, lately it’s been the Catholic Mass. At USC’s Caruso Catholic Center […]

UC students sue to protect “deadnaming” and “misgendering.”Plaintiff made to apologize for a stray “her”

UC students sue to protect “deadnaming” and “misgendering.”
Plaintiff made to apologize for a stray “her”

On June 18, Defending Education filed a federal lawsuit against the UC Regents, President James Milliken, a slate of UC Office of the President and campus officials at UCLA, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego, and, in their capacity as […]

Latin classes in San Diego starting July 15Homeschoolers, parochial, public school students, adults welcome

Latin classes in San Diego starting July 15
Homeschoolers, parochial, public school students, adults welcome

Latin classes start Wednesday, July 15 at St. Anne Church in San Diego. Open to homeschoolers, parochial and public school students, and adults. Beginning class will start at 8 am (after 7:15 Mass) Wednesdays, intermediate at 9 […]

Thomas Aquinas College podcasts now number 20
Lincoln-Douglas debates, T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," Hobbes

Some of the early discussions on podcasts by Thomas Aquinas College tutors included Dostoyevsky, Jane Austen, Copernicus, Marx, Plato, Ptolemy, Shakespeare. But a recent look at the […]

Five U.S. bishops say what students should studyConley, Cordileone, Daly, Fernandes, Paprocki sign the Front Royal Statement

Five U.S. bishops say what students should study
Conley, Cordileone, Daly, Fernandes, Paprocki sign the Front Royal Statement

The just-issued Front Royal Statement cites the drop in from 13,000 Catholic schools in the 1960s educating 5 million students to 6,000 schools with 1.7 million students. Among other things the statement prescribes a curriculum for primary and secodary […]