The Dean’s List

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – George Washington, Abigail Adams, and Thomas Jefferson show how self-education shapes character, wisdom, and leadership. Through reading, reflection, and engagement with great books, they cultivate lifelong learning, self-restraint, and honorable living, offering a timeless invitation to pursue knowledge beyond formal schooling and grow through disciplined study and thoughtful...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Memories surrounded in laughter and love are the moments which can bind a family together for generations. Parents have the power to influence and inform their children’s lives by creating intentional memories in the moment that will become nostalgic lifelines in the future. Build memories surrounded by virtues...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “The truth is that the phrase ‘wall of separation between church and state’ appears neither in the First Amendment nor anywhere else in the Constitution,” the report acknowledges. “What the First Amendment does say is that ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.’

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Was the persona of George Washington exaggerated after his death so that Americans could rally around this figure politically? The answer couldn’t be more clear. It’s a timely conversation given the 250th celebration underway throughout the country, coupled with the Socialist takeover of Democrat politics...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Benjamin Franklin and Molly Pitcher reveal how courage, humility, and virtue sustain liberty in moments of crisis. From the battlefield at Monmouth to the Constitutional Convention, their stories show that freedom depends on character, faith, and ordinary people willing to stand when history demands moral conviction and selfless action...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Samuel Adams emerges as a driving force behind American independence, organizing revolutionary energy when many still doubt freedom is possible. His conviction, strategy, and persistence help turn a distant dream into a determined movement, making him a catalyst who pushes the colonies toward courage, unity, resistance, and lasting self-government...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Our Constitution and religious beliefs have been under assault for decades by many who stand opposed to American values and virtues. Because it’s these two elements that are at the heart of American exceptionalism. Victor Davis Hanson expounds accurately on American exceptionalism - what made it and what will destroy it...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Columbia promotes socialism while ignoring thinkers who defend liberty, free markets, and constitutional principles. John Witherspoon’s Princeton legacy contrasts sharply with today’s ideological classrooms, while Liza Libes’s Soviet family history exposes socialism’s true cost and reminds readers why education must recover truth, goodness, beauty, and honest historical memory...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Thomas Jefferson’s gift for writing shapes America’s founding voice, from A Summary View of the Rights of British America to the Declaration of Independence. His classical education, bold language, and fearless counsel to King George III reveal why John Adams praises him as a man with a masterly pen today...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A defense of 1776 challenges modern claims that America’s founding ideals are mythology. By revisiting Jefferson, Aristotle, virtue, and classical learning, it argues that the founding generation understands happiness as moral formation rather than selfish desire, urging readers to recover old books, civic wisdom, and historical memory today...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Twenty-one percent of the colleges earned an “F,” largely because they are teaching practices debunked years ago, such as “three-cuing,” where children look at pictures to guess words that they don’t know, the report said. “Failing to prepare future teachers to teach reading well is a form of educational malpractice against...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Two Virginia founders, Richard Henry Lee and Benjamin Harrison, stand on opposite sides of the independence debate before both sign the Declaration of Independence. Their story reveals clashing strategies, deep family legacies, and the difficult path from hopes of reconciliation to a shared commitment to American liberty and self-government together...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Connecticut’s new homeschooling restrictions spark alarm among parents and advocates who say House Bill 5468 treats families as suspects before they teach at home. Critics warn mandatory reviews, government oversight, and background checks threaten parental rights, educational freedom, homeschool independence, and similar freedoms across America today in the years ahead...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “This Department of Justice will not tolerate local school authorities trampling on the rights of parents concerning the education of their children,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon. The Justice Department is looking into whether their policies and practices regarding instruction on sexual orientation and gender ideology violate...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The Marxists education system worked through fear . . students were raised to be afraid . . teachers discouraged creative thought. She was not allowed to sing in school unless it was a song praising communism or Lenin. As a ten year old, she realized she would not achieve any dreams of her own...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – In a classical education, memorization plays a primary role. As a matter of fact, memorization is the very foundation of grammar school. A few years ago I received a message from a former student. I taught her in middle school almost 25 years ago. Her message was short, but full of gratitude because of an assignment I insisted upon the...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “Early exposure to screens carries developmental and cognitive risks. Screen use in early life is linked to poorer language outcomes,” the advisory states, pointing to research that found that children who used screens more had poorer language skills. The advisory further states that excessive screen time has been linked to inferior educational and health...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – From Captain James Lawrence’s final command to Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory on Lake Erie, “Don’t give up the ship” echoes into modern education. Classical schools grow as families embrace faith, Western thought, phonics, rhetoric, and moral formation, proving perseverance still shapes America’s classrooms and the enduring pursuit of wisdom today...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Two overlooked Virginia signers, Thomas Nelson Jr. and George Wythe, reveal how sacrifice, courage, learning, and virtue sustain liberty. Their lives call schools, families, and churches to form citizens who choose duty over comfort and understand that freedom depends on character as much as knowledge, law, and public service today...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Washington’s farewell address offers a timely warning about national unity, political division, foreign entanglements, and the indispensable role of religion and morality in public life. His words challenge Americans to reconsider the foundations of liberty, education, and civic responsibility while reflecting on how far the nation has drifted morally today...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Under the Trump Administration, the federal government is pushing for a renewal of civics education. Education Secretary Linda McMahon commended the student participants. “To all of the students showing off their knowledge of our amazing nation and leaving their mark celebrating our Semiquincentennial, you’ve earned a big round of...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – In an attempt to motivate the graduating class of 2026, Schmidt told them they have the power to shape how AI develops, a claim which was also met by laughter and boos. When Schmidt realized he was losing the students over their trepidation about AI, he resorted to buzzwords such as “diversity” and “immigrant.” But the students were not buying what he...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Princeton’s Honor Code faces upheaval as widespread cheating exposes a deeper failure in modern education. Rather than blaming AI, the problem points to missing lessons in honor, character, virtue, and self-discipline. America’s founding examples remind schools that integrity must be taught and modeled again before trust in students disappears completely...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Even if the DOE were abolished tomorrow,” Brooks states, “The ideological orientation of American schooling would remain intact.” The reason for this is that the engines of indoctrination do not originate at the Federal level. The real problem in education is not federal management at the DOE level but ideological capture at the...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The Freedom Foundation is a policy organization that has been assisting state legislators with these measures as well as helping teachers opt out of union membership. The foundation notes that it has helped more than 272,535 teachers in red and blue states to opt out of union membership, including more than 50,000 in 2025 alone...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – AG Paxton is investigating dozens of Texas school districts to confirm compliance with Ten Commandments in the classrooms and school boards creating a time for student prayer throughout the school day. One Texas mom is suing the Houston Independent School District (HISD) relating to graphic sexuality that is available in the school library...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – One mom was removed from a Houston School Board meeting for reading explicit material from a library book, while several school districts in IL are under investigation for promoting sexual ideology. In the complaint, Wallace states the school district violated her First Amendment Rights by removing her from the public gathering because of the...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Lyman Hall’s stand in St. John’s Parish shows how courage begins in small duties. As Georgia hesitates, one parish chooses conviction and helps draw a colony toward independence. From a mother’s steady labor to classrooms that form virtue, freedom depends on families, teachers, and citizens who stand, teach, and love...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Progressives like John Dewey criticized the founders for considering principles in the Declaration of Independence as timeless truths. In his view, the ideas in the Declaration were only relevant to their era, not binding on future generations. A few weeks ago, Justice Clarence Thomas was giving a speech at the University of Texas, marking the 250th anniversary of...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Both our Constitution and religious beliefs have been under assault for decades by many who stand opposed to American values and virtues. Because it’s these two elements that are at the heart of American exceptionalism. Victor Davis Hanson expounds accurately on American exceptionalism - what made it and what will destroy it...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – AFL called it a “historic victory” in the fight to hold school districts accountable to parents. America First Legal (AFL), attorneys on behalf of the mother, said the district school’s policy had required schools to address students by their preferred pronouns, name, and gender; permit them to use whichever bathroom they wanted; and allow them to...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – In a razor thin 9–8 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit confirmed Texas Senate Bill 10, overturning the lower-court injunctions that had barred the 2025 law from taking effect. The ACLU lamented the decision. “We are extremely disappointed in today’s decision. The Court’s ruling goes against fundamental First Amendment principles and...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Ranking as Gen Z's 5th most common scholarship discovery source, TikTok has become part of many students' regular college financial planning routine. TikTok even ranked as Gen Z's 5th most common source for scholarship discovery. The report also discovered that not everything on TikTok is all it's cracked up to be...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A published study found that individuals who “ruminated on anger-inducing events experienced stronger and longer-lasting anger, more negative thoughts, and heightened stress responses.” Rumination can prolong the body’s stress response, “keeping cortisol levels elevated for longer periods and increasing inflammatory markers.” Over time, this...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Chicago schools face a growing standoff as the superintendent insists classrooms remain open on May 1 while the Chicago Teachers Union pushes for a walkout. Parents, officials, and Brandon Johnson weigh in, raising concerns about lost learning time, childcare challenges, and the broader political tensions shaping education decisions in the city...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in school every morning is out of fashion, but at our own peril. In schools across the country, teachers are preparing their students to walk out of class on May 1 to protest our nation’s laws regarding border enforcement. The Sunrise Movement is one of the organizations behind the planned walkout and has...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Texas education officials advance a controversial required reading list that includes the Bible and classic works, sparking debate among teachers and policymakers. Supporters cite cultural literacy and historical context, while critics warn of impractical workloads and legal risks, as the State Board of Education prepares for a final vote in June...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The Act would require schools to issue two books per semester, or four per academic year, to be read by students in grades 6 through 12. Researchers at Emory University have discovered something phenomenal about your brain. After one reads a novel, there are particular changes taking place in regions of the brain that linger...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A debate unfolds over embracing artificial intelligence in classrooms as a path to global competitiveness. While proponents highlight innovation and digital literacy, critics argue students lack foundational skills needed for critical thinking. The tension raises questions about whether technology enhances education or distracts from essential early learning development...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Discover how Connecticut’s four signers—Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, and Oliver Wolcott—stand firmly for independence. Explore their convictions, influence, and roles in shaping the Declaration of Independence, as well as contemporary perspectives from fellow patriots who recognize their unwavering commitment to breaking from British rule and securing...