The Dean’s List

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...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Teen accounts will be unavailable from midnight to 6 a.m. Messaging and push alerts face extra limits overnight and during school hours. In addition, cosmetic filters are banned for teen users. Parents should take advantage of those productive pauses and trade their phones with their children for a good book. Perhaps it’s time to reclaim...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A federal judge rules that Oklahoma cannot reject a Jewish charter school’s application solely because of its religious character. The preliminary injunction allows Ben Gamla’s application to proceed without approving the school, reinforcing First Amendment religious freedom protections and challenging religious exclusions in the state’s publicly funded charter school program...