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Homeschools
HF Homeschool launches to simplify starting a co-op

Homeschool co-ops, in which homeschool families meet to educate their students, have blossomed across the United States in recent years. Starting such a group just became easier, now that the Herzog… Read More

March 19, 2024
Christian Schools
Former AG Bill Barr: School choice, Christian education are crucial to religious liberty, restoring a culture no longer hostile to traditional values

Decades after his Christian school upbringing, former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr tracked down the teacher at Corpus Christi elementary in New York who meant the most to him, just… Read More

October 2, 2023
Christian Schools
Christian Teacher of the Year: Brooke Stewart is pioneering an agriculture program for Christian education, making hard work cool again

Agriculture and Christian education don’t always go together. But they should. Just ask Brooke Stewart, who teaches agriculture science at Victory Christian Academy in Decatur, Texas. “It’s more than cows,… Read More

September 29, 2023
Christian Schools
Christian Teacher of the Year: Sarah Murphy finds her mission in the classroom, blending faith and learning with personal responsibility

When Sarah Murphy followed in her mother’s footsteps and became a teacher, she assumed she would teach in a public school. “I really thought my mission would be public,” Murphy… Read More

September 29, 2023
Christian Schools
Christian Teacher of the Year: English teacher Cheryl Crouch challenges students to ‘be a thinker, don’t just take the easy way out’

Cheryl Crouch has been a high school English teacher for 13 years, but the skills she seeks to instill in her students are timeless. “As an English teacher, [I hope]… Read More

September 28, 2023
Christian Schools
Christian Teacher of the Year: Tanya Dallmeyer helps her students start each day with a bang, or a box, while encouraging them toward faith and service

Veteran teacher Tanya Dallmeyer decided some time ago to depart from conventional morning routines in her classroom and take a creative approach to start the day. “For years, my students… Read More

September 28, 2023
Christian Schools
Christian Teacher of the Year: Nurse-turned-teacher Janelle Rupp helps students understand their God-given identity

Janelle Rupp hadn’t planned to be a teacher. Raised in a Christian family, she felt called by God to be a nurse – a calling she followed for nearly two… Read More

September 27, 2023
Christian Schools
Christian Teacher of the Year: Bruce Hoover steps right out of history to take his students back there, all the while pointing to God

Bruce Hoover looks every bit the time traveler he is. And why not? The bearded, bespectacled American history teacher at Anchor Christian Academy in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,… Read More

September 27, 2023
Christian Schools
Christian Teacher of the Year: Joseph Cox takes his students to ‘court’ to put their faith on trial, preparing them for college and life

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the linchpin of the Christian faith. So how do you teach Christian school students to believe and defend it? Put the belief on trial. Read More

September 26, 2023
Christian Schools
Christian Teacher of the Year: Ashley Skinner innovates at school her family started generations before

Ashley Skinner may not have thought she would one day be laminating and lesson planning at a Christian school, just as she had watched her mother and grandmother faithfully do… Read More

September 25, 2023
Christian Schools
Christian Teacher of the Year: Mark Newman has students view today’s news and toughest topics through the lens of scripture

It seems as if everyone’s trying to put his or her own spin on the lunacy and lewdness that is the news of today. Mark Newman chooses to put current… Read More

September 25, 2023
Christian Schools
Christian Teacher of the Year: Kyle Rapinchuk’s students tasked with planning churches from scratch, seeing God in history’s great books

The global nonprofit Junior Achievement teaches students how to turn an idea into a business. Dr. Kyle Rapinchuk teaches his students how to turn their religious beliefs into a church. Read More

September 12, 2023
Christian Schools
Christian Teacher of the Year: Bible teacher Jake Kounter explains why there’s nothing more exciting than biblical education

Jake Kounter loves seeing the gospel come alive in the lives of his students. As the Bible teacher at Immanuel Christian High School in Virginia, Kounter works with students who… Read More

September 8, 2023
Culture
Late Missouri businessman Stan Herzog recognized for humanitarian support for orphaned children

In just over a decade, The World Orphan Fund has helped more than 135 orphanages and 10,000 children worldwide, thanks in large part to generous donors. One of the early,… Read More

July 20, 2023
Christian Schools
Teacher of the Year Jean Chen: It’s God’s story

How did a daughter of educators in communist China, who vowed she would never teach, enter and then leave medicine and, years later, end up teaching at a Christian… Read More

October 10, 2022
Christian Schools
First annual Christian education awards gala recognizes 12 teachers with national honors in nation’s capital

A select group of the nation’s best Christian school teachers was recognized with national awards of excellence in the nation’s capital on Saturday.  The 12 teachers make up… Read More

September 28, 2022