The Dean’s List

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The DOJ has sued a Maryland school district because of a policy requiring staff to keep gender identity information from parents out of safety for the children. Imagine being told you could not access your child’s academic records without a subpoena! Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, said in...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Socialism gains favor among young Americans as politicians emphasize affordable health care and public services. Its friendly presentation raises concerns about whether voters understand government ownership of industry or scrutinize the gap between appealing political labels and the policies promoted by candidates seeking their support...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – School boards in New Jersey and Oregon change course as they buckle under the pressure of parents demanding their Constitutional rights. Litigation was brought against the school district by the Thomas More Society on behalf of Moms for Liberty. The settlement calls for the district to comply with U.S. Supreme Court precedents recognizing...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “Every parent has the right to expect that when their children are with us, they are receiving a high-quality education that includes everything their students need in order to succeed and thrive,” he said. “Until every student is at proficiency or higher, our work continues.” The parents agree, and they don’t want this celebration to become mere lip...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) passed a resolution in 2024 decrying publicly funded school voucher programs, claiming they are discriminatory. We’re uncertain how this particular program perpetuates racial and economic segregation while it opens up educational opportunities to every child no matter their race or economic situation...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “For the Greeks of antiquity, the pursuit of excellence was the very principle of man’s existence,” Rubio declared, and excellence should be the driving force of American education today. Where did American culture originate? Was it on board the Mayflower? Was it at Jamestown? Was it in medieval Europe?

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The exiles said Castro and Chavez initially garnered popular support by promising change and prosperity, a tantalizing prospect for the poor who were fed up with government corruption. But neither dictator delivered on those promises and both countries descended into more poverty...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The software claims to draw on platforms such as Khan Academy and Membean, while personalizing student pacing with children advancing only after mastering material. After students have “crushed their academics in under two hours,” the rest of the day involves workshops in public speaking, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, leadership, physical activity, an...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Communists and socialists continue to present the West with a dilemma: What should a free society do with people who use the freedoms of speech to advocate for systems that would radically transform, or in some cases abolish, the economic and political order that made those freedoms possible?

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Fewer teens are claiming to be homosexual or bisexual after years of that number rising. “The trends are striking,” Twenge wrote on her blog, especially after comparing them with data from a decade ago. Twenge admitted to having no answer for the decline. “I have to confess: I have no idea.” After comparing the CDC’s data from the...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The mastery of being human requires continuing education for the soul. That’s what you get when you tackle a great book. Lawyers, teachers, and those in other professions must take continuing education courses to certify mastery of content. It got me thinking... what would a course that covered mastery of being human look like?

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – When teachers feel like they don’t matter to their students, families, administrators, and other teachers, the flame of passion begins to die. They’re ready to move on to other career options. The school plays a role in this feeling. Private schools and classical charter schools have a culture that adds meaning to the work teachers are doing. Public schools.....

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – While some might only look at The Tell-Tale Heart as a horror story, Adler connects it to Aristotle’s Ethics. In this masterpiece, Aristotle argues that wickedness involves ignorance of two things: knowing what one ought to do, and what one ought to avoid. Essentially, knowing right from wrong. Robert M. Woods, a long-time student of Adler...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Homeschool students score significantly higher than the conventional school test norm group (weighted mean percentiles 74 to 82). The researchers noted that “These new data and findings help scholars, educators, policymakers, and the public in evaluating homeschooling’s current outcomes, informing policy debates, and...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Instead of teaching our students that America is a democracy, we should be teaching them the truth: that America is a Constitutional Republic. Join us on today’s program as I delve into the differences between a democracy and a constitutional republic, and why one is detrimental to a nation and the other is the best form of government a nation can have...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Bernie Sanders has made it clear that the Democratic Party no longer belongs to the Democrats. It has been infiltrated and is now solely owned by the Socialists. Sanders says if James Carville doesn’t get on board with the complete communist takeover of the Democratic Party, he can go start his own party. The infiltration of the Democrats is complete...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “Your Highnesses may believe that in all the world there can be no better or gentler people. Your Highnesses should feel great joy because presently they will be Christians and instructed in the good manners of your realms, for a better people there cannot be on earth,” wrote Columbus. Ae modern historians and educators lying to us about...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – In order to build this culture, teachers are part of a learning community where they are encouraged to continue their own learning journey. “Every couple of weeks, students have an early release day so teachers can engage in seminars about the great works of literature, theology, philosophy, math, and science,” Ortner noted...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – After recent multiple Supreme Court decisions surrounding girls’ sports and parents’ rights, including a decision in June that bars male participation in girls’ sports and rejects the notion that doing so would violate Title IX, Keeler is hopeful. The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied Keeler’s requests last month because they didn’t...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Despite spending more money on education than ever before, U.S. reading scores hit their lowest level on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing. Clearly, what we’re doing is not working. More money isn’t the answer. More education in technology isn’t the answer. More immersion in behavior curriculum isn’t the...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – At a time when young Americans are expressing positive impressions of socialism in record numbers, it is more important than ever for students to learn and understand the devastating human consequences of communist and socialist regimes. Linda McMahon urged classroom instruction on the destructive ideology of Communism...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The Supreme Court is “distinctly American in concept and function,” as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes observed. No other court in the world has functioned as long and with one main purpose —to interpret and protect the Constitution. The ideas espoused during the Great Awakening were the underpinnings of the words in the Declaration of Independence...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Teacher shortages expose flaws in salary structures that reward seniority and advanced degrees over effectiveness. A new report urges schools to prioritize merit pay and higher salaries for hard-to-fill positions, while teachers’ unions oppose reforms aimed at improving student outcomes and retaining effective classroom educators...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – NYC homeowners received notices that they may owe Mamdani’s luxury property tax. State Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi ruled that the city must review all the information available to it and produce the records backing its claim before it arbitrarily decides a property is a second home subject to the tax...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Trump’s Department of Education formally removes Biden’s expanded Title IX regulations, restoring the 2020 rule governing sex discrimination in federally funded schools. The change follows court rulings and emphasizes protections for women and girls, including privacy, safety, and athletic opportunities, while clarifying legal responsibilities for...