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Week of September 2

This Week in Fifth Grade The Art of Numbers: Place Value Roman Numerals Comparing and Ordering Numbers The Art of Words: Bible- Memory Verse-  Hebrews 11: 1, 16 (Students will recite by September 13 and may say anytime before then (We will be discussing Gideon,...

Virtue as the Purpose of Education

  By CRAIG HEFNER, PH.D. What is the purpose of education?   Every educational system and every school has an implicit answer to this question, whether it’s consciously stated or not. Some have proposed that education is solely for the acquisition of...

Adventure Awaits: Those Who Seek Will Find

It was a rainy Tuesday morning, humid and hurried, as bright-eyed students hustled toward the school entrance, their excited steps marked by splashes of puddles on pavement. Dressed for adventure, their leather boots laced and their wide-brimmed hats secured, they...