Anchored by the Classic Learning Test
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Anchored is published by the Classic Learning Test. Hosted by CLT leadership, including our CEO Jeremy Tate, Anchored features conversations with leading thinkers on issues at the intersection of education and culture. New discussions are released every Thursday. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Hamza Yusuf On The Secret Sauce Of Western Civilization
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11/04/21 • 42 min
On this episode of Anchored, Jeremy and Arooba are joined by Hamza Yusuf, president of the first accredited Muslim undergraduate college in the United States. Growing up with parents who loved truth and knowledge, Hamza Yusuf describes his childhood as multifaceted. He explains that much of his education occurred outside of school with his father, who studied the humanities and worked as a college professor. When Hamza was 17 years old, a head-on collision prompted him to investigate life after death, ultimately leading to his conversion from Irish Catholicism to Islam. Hamza discusses the relationship between the liberal arts and Islam, the troubles of modern ideologies influencing Islamic education, and the decline of western civilization caused by forgetting its secret sauce...classical education.
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Are Research Universities Necessary for STEM Careers? | Office Hours with Jeremy Tate
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05/14/24 • 20 min
On Office Hours with Jeremy Tate, Jeremy and Soren dive into the most recent, need-to-know news surrounding the education renewal movement. Tune in to hear about the correlation between classical higher education institutions and their comparative lack of riots. Soren and Jeremy also discuss the richness and success of classical school STEM programs and why liberal arts students do not need to fear the future of AI.
Alexandra Hudson on Her Experience Working at the US Department of Education
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06/28/22 • 33 min
On this episode of Anchored, Jeremy is joined by Alexandra Hudson, curator of Civic Renaissance. She discusses her early education, which consisted of homeschool, public school, and charter school. She also shares her experience working in the US Department of Education and the disillusionment it caused. She states that although she was excited to make a change in education through her role, the Department of Education seemed to have other priorities. It was much more bureaucratic, and had little regard for the human aspect of education. Alexandra also talks about her newsletter Civic Renaissance, politics, and her books.
Phil Cook on Nurturing Faith in Higher Education
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09/15/22 • 29 min
On this episode of Anchored, Jeremy is joined by Phil Cook, Executive Director of the North American Coalition for Christian Admissions Professionals (NACCAP). Phil discusses his time serving as Vice President of Enrollment at Lee University, where he and the college administration sought to foster Christ-centered and academically excellent education. Phil shares the importance of nurturing faith in higher education and why parents should make the investment in private Christian colleges for their children. He discusses NACCAP's work to advance enrollment in Christian higher education through Christian University & College Fairs.
Tamara Long and Grace Tate on Abilene Christian University's Summer Program in England
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08/23/22 • 31 min
On this episode of Anchored, Jeremy is joined by his daughter, Grace Tate, and Tamara Long, Vice President for Enrollment Management at Abilene Christian University. Tamara and Grace discuss Abilene's summer program in England, sharing their perspectives on the trip and what they learned about English history and culture. Tamara emphasizes that Abilene Christian University's goal is to maintain a strong Christian identity that pervades and fuels its rigorous academics.
David Williams on The Impact of School Culture
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07/26/22 • 30 min
On this episode of Anchored, Jeremy is joined by David Williams, President of Valor Education, the Valor Institute, and John Paul II Academy of San Diego. David discusses his love for teaching, his time teaching at Union High School, a public school in NJ, and how teaching at public school informed the rest of his career. He also shares how he learned about classical education, eventually becoming the headmaster at Glendale Preparatory Academy and then Executive Director at Great Hearts. David explains his vision behind founding the Valor Institute and Valor education, stating his desire to cultivate good school culture as the driving force.
Covenant College President Derek Halvorson on the Liberal Arts and the Reformed Tradition
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10/13/22 • 29 min
On this episode of Anchored, Jeremy is joined by Dr. Derek Halvorson, President of Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, GA. President Halvorson shares about his educational journey, including his motivations for attending Covenant College as an undergraduate despite receiving lucrative scholarship offers to study elsewhere. He discusses the Reformed Christian identity that is central to Covenant College, detailing the ways this identity influences the College’s view of the liberal arts and its core curriculum. He also discusses the Summer Institute at Covenant College, a one-week, residential program for motivated high school students.
Dante: Journey Through the Author Bank with Dr. Brian Williams
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04/16/22 • 73 min
Join Dr. Brian Williams for his lecture on Dante in Week 1 of CLT's Journey Through the Author Bank seminar series. Guided by renowned professors from colleges and universities, the series will investigate the men and women who have shaped our intellectual heritage and explore a new thinker each week from CLT's Author Bank.
Dr. Brian A. Williams teaches at Eastern University (Philadelphia), where he is Dean of the Templeton Honors College; Dean of the College of Arts & Humanities; and Co-Director of the MA in Classical Teaching (MAT) program. He is the General Editor of Principia: A Journal of Classical Education, a national Alcuin Fellow, a Research Fellow with the Institute of Classical Education, and a member of the Academic Advisory Board for the Classic Learning Test.
Alvaro De Vicente on The Search for Truth
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03/15/22 • 46 min
On this episode of Anchored, Jeremy is joined by Alvaro de Vicente, Headmaster of The Heights School in Potomac, Maryland. Alvaro discusses the mission of the Heights, and their belief that education is a parental responsibility. He also discusses other topics, such as the relationship between classical education and Catholic education, their mutual search for truth, and the advantages of single-sex education.
Meghan Cox Gurdon On "Even Homer Gets Mobbed"
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01/14/21 • 26 min
Note: This is Part 2 of an episode co-release detailing responses to the #DisruptTexts movement which caught national attention. Meghan Cox Gurdon is an author and weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal, where she writes on children's books. Her recent op-ed in the WSJ, entitled "Even Homer Gets Mobbed," outlined efforts by the group #DisruptTexts to have works of the Western Canon removed from school curricula (the movement's official statement: #DisruptTexts is a crowdsourced, grass roots effort by teachers for teachers to challenge the traditional canon in order to create a more inclusive, representative, and equitable language arts curriculum that our students deserve. It is part of our mission to aid and develop teachers committed to anti-racist/anti-bias teaching pedagogy and practices). In this episode, Meghan joins Jeremy to discuss not only the impetus for writing this article, but also the overwhelming response that she received in response, as well as the larger movement of critical theory within our institutions. While discussing the laudable efforts toward more representative literature for children, she describes the results of misguided efforts to declare texts not reflective of modern sensibilities as "dangerous" and "harmful." She also discusses her book The Enchanted Hour, which examines the social, mental, and physiological benefits of reading aloud. Send questions or comments to [email protected].
Host Jeremy Tate @JeremyTate41
Guest Meghan Cox Gurdon
Even Homer Gets Mobbed
#DisruptTexts
The Enchanted Hour
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How many episodes does Anchored by the Classic Learning Test have?
Anchored by the Classic Learning Test currently has 355 episodes available.
What topics does Anchored by the Classic Learning Test cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Classical Education, Podcasts and Education.
What is the most popular episode on Anchored by the Classic Learning Test?
The episode title 'Hamza Yusuf On The Secret Sauce Of Western Civilization' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Anchored by the Classic Learning Test?
The average episode length on Anchored by the Classic Learning Test is 34 minutes.
How often are episodes of Anchored by the Classic Learning Test released?
Episodes of Anchored by the Classic Learning Test are typically released every 5 days.
When was the first episode of Anchored by the Classic Learning Test?
The first episode of Anchored by the Classic Learning Test was released on Aug 31, 2020.
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