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Vlog: The War on Reason
In this week’s vlog, I discuss the way ACE attacks logical reasoning within its curriculum materials. This is not something I expect from a good educational system. I should note that when I said...
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A Collection of ACE School of Tomorrow Survivor Stories
Here are all of the Accelerated Christian Education/ School of Tomorrow survivor stories I’ve received on this blog. Since many of them have been buried way down in the comment threads of old posts,...
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Vlog: Accelerated Christian Education on Ancient History
… in which I get fired up and go on a bit of a rant. Education is about learning concepts and how they interrelate, to build a personal understanding of how the world works. The disjointed facts...
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Could the Christian Right Gain Power in the UK?
David Modell’s 2008 documentary for Channel 4, In God’s Name, is one of the most astonishing pieces of television I’ve seen. He visits an ACE school and actually has film of the lessons. Given that...
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Top 3 ACE School of Tomorrow Survivor Stories
I’ve spent a lot of time digging up ACE survivor stories on the net. These three, in my mind, best capture the experience of attending one of these schools. I’ve only managed to contact the author of...
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Educational Psychology vs. the Christian Right
Of all the peer-reviewed literature on the Christian Right I’ve found, Professor David Berliner’s is the most excoriating. Not for Berliner the tolerance of historians like Adam Laats. He sees the...
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Education: How to do it right
I love TED talks. I love that the best ideas from some of the best thinkers in their fields are online; it makes me optimistic that we can build a great future for humanity. I spend a lot of time...
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Fundamentalism: leading cause of atheism
I’m guest poster over at Heretic Husband today. It’s a blog I enjoy, so I’m pleased to be featured as guest poster. I hope you’ll go over there, read my article, and say hi. I should also give credit...
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Accelerated Christian Education’s Literature Course
This week, I have mostly been reading hogwash. The downside of studying fundamentalism is that I have to wade through fundamentalist literature. And I know I make this sound like a riot of hilarity,...
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Alberta Department of Education Reviews ACE
In 1985, the Canadian province of Alberta got very worried about Accelerated Christian Education. In fact, they said in a report that “In the view of the committee, there is no place for curriculum of...
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The Way Ahead – Recommendations for Faith Schools
On Friday, I examined the Alberta Department of Education’s views on Accelerated Christian Education. As part of its report, the Committee on Tolerance and Understanding made recommendations on...
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Accelerated Christian Education: Raising political activists.
Today I’m going to show you an ACE Wisdom Pack. I’ve mentioned them before, but just to put you in the loop: Every senior level English PACE contains a pull-out Wisdom Pack, which is a brief comic...
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Dawkins on Accelerated Christian Education (again) and Ofsted Reports
In his diary for the New Statesman in 2006, Richard Dawkins shared this on Accelerated Christian Education: “One of my TV locations was a London school that follows the (American) Accelerated Christian...
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The Best Email Ever (Another ACE Survivor Story)
Since I started this blog, I’ve been hoping that the parents of an ACE homeschooler would contact me to share their views. Recently, I’ve gained quite probably the best correspondent I could possibly...
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Teaching Right-Wing Propaganda (Part 2)
Some time ago, I began explaining how ACE promotes right-wing propaganda in its politics syllabus. Now, I think, would be a good time to give some concrete examples. In ACE, students learn “to see the...
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Former ACE employee turns whistleblower
For a few months now I have been in contact with a former employee of Christian Education Europe, the UK arm of Accelerated Christian Education. Christine Gregg was fired from CEE following a long...
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Vlog: The case for Accelerated Christian Education
I am constantly inviting guest posts on this blog. I particularly want to hear someone defend ACE against my criticisms. Finally someone has… The eleven-year-old me. And a stegosaurus. Watch and learn....
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Why don’t we just ban fundamentalist schools?
For a while now, I’ve been wondering if programmes like Accelerated Christian Education should just be illegal. I think I’ve done enough to establish that it’s harmful. So far we’ve had: ACE is racist...
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Where I come from, this is called corruption
I know I said I was stepping down to a once-a-week posting schedule, but I’ve just discovered something that makes me too angry to delay posting until Monday. This is a link to an OFSTED report (that’s...
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A neutral observer’s view of ACE schools
This is from the Times Educational Supplement, Scotland, July 2007: “The modest building is home to the River of Life Christian School, where pupils aged 5 to 18 sit quietly in a network of booths and...
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