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Market Analysis of U.S. Classical Education in Grades PK-12
Download the Market Analysis. In March 2023, Kevin Mahnken published a piece in The 74 entitled, “Amid the Pandemic, a Classical Education Boom: What if the Next Big School Trend Is 2,500 Years Old” (source)? This article is one in a spate of coverage dating back at...
K12 Enrollment Decline & Growth
K-12 enrollment trends: Why are public schools losing students, and which states are seeing enrollment growth? Public-school enrollment in the United States has been on a downward trend for several years, a decline expected to continue. The National Center for...
Charting the Classical Education Course
Dysfunctional schools reduce their academic model to a “choice of curriculum,” its only result the efficient delivery of literacy skills and raw information. Thriving schools are different. Thriving schools view their model as nothing less than the animating force...
Classical Education Needs Operational Discipline
Classical schools enjoy, at this moment, a greater ascendancy than ever in our nation’s history. Their particular strengths have made this so: chief among these is the commitment to infusing the transcendentals of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty into every aspect of...
Market Snapshot – Charter School Networks Summer 2023
From 2000 to 2020, the charter school movement boomed. In 20 years, the number of charter schools multiplied from 1,989 to 7,821 (NAPCS). During that same period, enrollment leaped from 448,362 to 3,695,769 students. What accounts for the 293% increase in new charter...
Supporting the Noblest Profession: Top 5 Concerns a Teacher has Going into the Classroom
Collectively, Arcadia’s team has spent well over 50 years teaching, operating, leading, and governing K-12 schools across at least 6 states and a dozen cities. At the start of each year, we find that novice and returning classroom teachers frequently express the same...