On this episode of Take Back Our Schools, Andrew and Beth welcome classical education innovator Jeremy Tate who talks about his experiences teaching in inner city New York City and what led him to found the Classic Learning Test, a standardized test for classical education that aims to compete with the SAT and ACT. We discuss the differences between classical education and progressive/modern education and Jeremy shares his views on the history of progressive education and of standardized testing in the United States. We also discuss the recent news of Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis’s led takeover of the New College of Florida.

Jeremy Tate is the founder and CEO of the Classic Learning Test (CLT). Jeremy is also the host of the Anchored Podcast that features discussions at the intersection of education and culture. Prior to founding CLT, Jeremy served as Director of College Counseling at Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville, Maryland. He received his Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education from Louisiana State University and a Masters in Religious Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary.

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  1. Ansonia Member
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    Will someone please tell me what the “classics” are ? I almost think I sense that people deliberately don’t say.

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  2. EJHill Podcaster
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    AnsoniaWill someone please tell me what the “classics” are ? I almost think I sense that people deliberately don’t say.

    A classical education is about teaching a solid base in all areas of instruction. When I was in HS that meant a Beowulf, Chaucer, Homer, Dickens and a play by Shakespeare every year. It meant a solid understanding of Magna Carta and the Constitution, Hobbes, Locke, Jefferson and Madison.

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  3. I Walton Member
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    Schools should teach whatever parents want and that will vary.  Universities should require whatever they want which will also vary.  What on earth does this mean?  Get rid of educational superstructure, eliminate state funding and let parents choose whatever school they want if their kids qualify.    Subsidize folks who need it but also give subsidized parents freedom to choose.  New Zealand did this more or less but in doing so showed the way.  New Zealand went from the bottom to the top, just behind Singapore, in short order.  Don’t know what they did subsequently.  But why on earth would we choose top down socialism for the most important institutions our kids need?  Parents who don’t pay attention or don’t have the wits to pay attention will still get to send their kids to much better schools because the bad non competitive schools will vanish.

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