Classical Schools are putting Plato before the iPad.

CNN

In Maryland, a group of students ponder which depiction of the Nativity shows true beauty: A 14th-century Giotto, a 16th-century Barocci or a 20th-century William Congdon. The students are in seventh grade.

Outside Houston, second-graders learn Latin amid the Doric columns, Romanesque arches and the golden Renaissance hues of a gracious brick building.

And in West Tennessee, a first-grade classroom lists virtues - reverence, discipline, diligence and loving kindness - along with Aristotle's "four questions," a simplified version of the Greek philosopher's four causes.

The students attend some of several hundred “classical” schools around the country - institutions designed to reflect the scholarship from the past three millennia of Western civilization, rather than the latest classroom trends.

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Jane Dildine, Director of Community Relations

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What is a charter school? Charter schools are similar to your neighborhood public schools, but are not bound by as many bureaucratic rules.  Our teachers are non-union, non-tenured, and are thus given more freedom in their selection of curriculum.  

How much is tuition?  Nothing! As a charter school, we do not charge any tuition.

Charter schools provide an alternative to the "conveyor belt method" of education.

Charter schools may focus on a specific curriculum or audience such as performing arts, technology, science, math, or the under served.

Because Charter schools have free market pressures (rent payments and competition for students), they tend to work harder to make sure that stakeholders are pleased.

John Adams Academy provides a classical leadership education, which is how many of the Founding Fathers were educated. 

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Jane Dildine

Development Director

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Welcome to our blog for John Adams Academy!  We are a public charter school, in Roseville CA, that provides a classical leadership education, which is how many of the Founding Fathers were educated. Our Mission statement says it best:  John Adams Academy is restoring America's heritage by developing servant leaders who are keepers and defenders of the principles of freedom for which our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.

"When you step on to the campus of John Adams Academy the culture of which we strive for here should be felt immediately as a place of intense focus and intellect.  We want our scholars to define themselves by their knowledge and great ideas and the ability to articulate those in written and oral argument with vast vocabularies because it is who they have become."
      - Dean and Linda Forman, founders of John Adams Academy.

Within this Blog, we will focus on the characteristics of a Classical Leadership Education.  We hope to accomplish this with voices from our scholars, teachers, staff, parents, board members and leaders in our community at large.  We are proposing an Education Revolution!  Join our journey as we teach our children from classics and by studying the great minds and lives of men and women throughout history.  These are men and women who think for themselves and use their own special excellence to serve the world around them.  We are changing lives and we want you to witness the change with us.  Visit often.  Get to know the different voices that will be telling you the story.

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With warm regards,

Jane Dildine
Development Director
John Adams Academy