The Dean’s List

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A California family sues the Sunnyvale School District, alleging officials deny notice and opt-out rights for elementary sex and gender lessons. The dispute centers on parental authority, religious freedom, Supreme Court precedent, and claims that LGBT materials are being embedded across required subjects to avoid traditional opt-out protections for families....

he Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The teachers unions will stop at nothing to protect their stranglehold on education in America. The nation’s largest teachers unions recently sent an open letter to the Democrat governors imploring them to reject the Federal Tax Credit Program that supports family choice when it comes to which schools their children are able to attend...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Texas advances a new K-12 reading list that includes selected Bible passages across multiple grade levels. Supporters say biblical teachings reflect America’s educational foundations, while critics raise concerns about religious preference and diversity. The decision signals a renewed effort to place Scripture within public school curriculum and classroom ins...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Speaker Mike Johnson is referring to the tide of Socialism sweeping over the country and lurching at the threshold. He went as far as to say that for the first time in our lifetime, a Constitutional Republic is on the ballot this November because of the number of potential Socialists who could be elected as our representatives...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – John Hancock emerges as far more than a famous signature. His upbringing, education, business success, faith, political courage, and public service reveal a patriot willing to risk wealth and reputation for liberty. His leadership during the Revolution and early republic offers a lasting example of honor, duty, and sacrifice...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The Battle of Monongahela reveals George Washington’s courage, General Braddock’s fatal arrogance, and the devastating consequences of ignoring frontier allies. Amid chaos and heavy British losses, Washington organizes the retreat and survives against extraordinary odds, strengthening his belief in Providence and securing a defining place in American history...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – George Washington, Abigail Adams, and Thomas Jefferson show how self-education shapes character, wisdom, and leadership. Through reading, reflection, and engagement with great books, they cultivate lifelong learning, self-restraint, and honorable living, offering a timeless invitation to pursue knowledge beyond formal schooling and grow through disciplined st...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Memories surrounded in laughter and love are the moments which can bind a family together for generations. Parents have the power to influence and inform their children’s lives by creating intentional memories in the moment that will become nostalgic lifelines in the future. Build memories surrounded by virtues...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “The truth is that the phrase ‘wall of separation between church and state’ appears neither in the First Amendment nor anywhere else in the Constitution,” the report acknowledges. “What the First Amendment does say is that ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.’

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Was the persona of George Washington exaggerated after his death so that Americans could rally around this figure politically? The answer couldn’t be more clear. It’s a timely conversation given the 250th celebration underway throughout the country, coupled with the Socialist takeover of Democrat politics...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Benjamin Franklin and Molly Pitcher reveal how courage, humility, and virtue sustain liberty in moments of crisis. From the battlefield at Monmouth to the Constitutional Convention, their stories show that freedom depends on character, faith, and ordinary people willing to stand when history demands moral conviction and selfless action...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Samuel Adams emerges as a driving force behind American independence, organizing revolutionary energy when many still doubt freedom is possible. His conviction, strategy, and persistence help turn a distant dream into a determined movement, making him a catalyst who pushes the colonies toward courage, unity, resistance, and lasting self-government...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Our Constitution and religious beliefs have been under assault for decades by many who stand opposed to American values and virtues. Because it’s these two elements that are at the heart of American exceptionalism. Victor Davis Hanson expounds accurately on American exceptionalism - what made it and what will destroy it...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Columbia promotes socialism while ignoring thinkers who defend liberty, free markets, and constitutional principles. John Witherspoon’s Princeton legacy contrasts sharply with today’s ideological classrooms, while Liza Libes’s Soviet family history exposes socialism’s true cost and reminds readers why education must recover truth, goodness, beauty, and honest...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Thomas Jefferson’s gift for writing shapes America’s founding voice, from A Summary View of the Rights of British America to the Declaration of Independence. His classical education, bold language, and fearless counsel to King George III reveal why John Adams praises him as a man with a masterly pen today...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The Marxists education system worked through fear . . students were raised to be afraid . . teachers discouraged creative thought. She was not allowed to sing in school unless it was a song praising communism or Lenin. As a ten year old, she realized she would not achieve any dreams of her own...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – In a classical education, memorization plays a primary role. As a matter of fact, memorization is the very foundation of grammar school. A few years ago I received a message from a former student. I taught her in middle school almost 25 years ago. Her message was short, but full of gratitude because of an assignment I insisted upon the...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “Early exposure to screens carries developmental and cognitive risks. Screen use in early life is linked to poorer language outcomes,” the advisory states, pointing to research that found that children who used screens more had poorer language skills. The advisory further states that excessive screen time has been linked to inferior educational and health...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – From Captain James Lawrence’s final command to Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory on Lake Erie, “Don’t give up the ship” echoes into modern education. Classical schools grow as families embrace faith, Western thought, phonics, rhetoric, and moral formation, proving perseverance still shapes America’s classrooms and the enduring pursuit of wisdom today...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Two overlooked Virginia signers, Thomas Nelson Jr. and George Wythe, reveal how sacrifice, courage, learning, and virtue sustain liberty. Their lives call schools, families, and churches to form citizens who choose duty over comfort and understand that freedom depends on character as much as knowledge, law, and public service today...