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The Dean’s List

Dean Bowen

America Out Loud Network © – The Dean’s List is a show resolved to Renovate the Age by shining the light of truth on the decaying American education system while also shining the light of hope for parents and grandparents.

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Yesterday · 57 min
Is freedom of speech being used to destroy unalienable rights?
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Communists and socialists continue to present the West with a dilemma: What should a free society do with people who use the freedoms of speech to advocate for systems that would radically transform, or in some cases abolish, the economic and political order that made those freedoms possible?
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Is the crisis of confusion finally coming to a close?
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Fewer teens are claiming to be homosexual or bisexual after years of that number rising. “The trends are striking,” Twenge wrote on her blog, especially after comparing them with data from a decade ago. Twenge admitted to having no answer for the decline. “I have to confess: I have no idea.” After comparing the CDC’s data from the...
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Wednesday · 56 min
The hard read: How to conquer a difficult book
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The mastery of being human requires continuing education for the soul. That’s what you get when you tackle a great book. Lawyers, teachers, and those in other professions must take continuing education courses to certify mastery of content. It got me thinking... what would a course that covered mastery of being human look like?
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Tuesday · 56 min
Why 25% of teachers say they won’t be back in the classroom next year
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – When teachers feel like they don’t matter to their students, families, administrators, and other teachers, the flame of passion begins to die. They’re ready to move on to other career options. The school plays a role in this feeling. Private schools and classical charter schools have a culture that adds meaning to the work teachers are doing. Public schools...
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October 17 · 57 min
Why Edgar Allan Poe’s classic horror story is included amongst the great books
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – While some might only look at The Tell-Tale Heart as a horror story, Adler connects it to Aristotle’s Ethics. In this masterpiece, Aristotle argues that wickedness involves ignorance of two things: knowing what one ought to do, and what one ought to avoid. Essentially, knowing right from wrong. Robert M. Woods, a long-time student of Adler...
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October 16 · 57 min
Homeschool students rank at the top of the class
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Homeschool students score significantly higher than the conventional school test norm group (weighted mean percentiles 74 to 82). The researchers noted that “These new data and findings help scholars, educators, policymakers, and the public in evaluating homeschooling’s current outcomes, informing policy debates, and...
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October 15 · 57 min
How to stop the plague of socialism in America
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Instead of teaching our students that America is a democracy, we should be teaching them the truth: that America is a Constitutional Republic. Join us on today’s program as I delve into the differences between a democracy and a constitutional republic, and why one is detrimental to a nation and the other is the best form of government a nation can have...
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October 14 · 57 min
Carville warns, Sanders doubles down: Democrats face a reckoning
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Bernie Sanders has made it clear that the Democratic Party no longer belongs to the Democrats. It has been infiltrated and is now solely owned by the Socialists. Sanders says if James Carville doesn’t get on board with the complete communist takeover of the Democratic Party, he can go start his own party. The infiltration of the Democrats is complete...
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October 13 · 57 min
What they’re not telling you about 1492
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “Your Highnesses may believe that in all the world there can be no better or gentler people. Your Highnesses should feel great joy because presently they will be Christians and instructed in the good manners of your realms, for a better people there cannot be on earth,” wrote Columbus. Ae modern historians and educators lying to us about...
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October 11 · 57 min
Reclaiming education from a system that has lost its purpose
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – In order to build this culture, teachers are part of a learning community where they are encouraged to continue their own learning journey. “Every couple of weeks, students have an early release day so teachers can engage in seminars about the great works of literature, theology, philosophy, math, and science,” Ortner noted...
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October 10 · 56 min
Here’s one more reason parents are demanding school choice
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – After recent multiple Supreme Court decisions surrounding girls’ sports and parents’ rights, including a decision in June that bars male participation in girls’ sports and rejects the notion that doing so would violate Title IX, Keeler is hopeful. The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied Keeler’s requests last month because they didn’t...
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October 9 · 57 min
Are we funding education or financing failure?
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Despite spending more money on education than ever before, U.S. reading scores hit their lowest level on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing. Clearly, what we’re doing is not working. More money isn’t the answer. More education in technology isn’t the answer. More immersion in behavior curriculum isn’t the...
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October 7 · 56 min
McMahon urges schools to teach the truth about socialism
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – At a time when young Americans are expressing positive impressions of socialism in record numbers, it is more important than ever for students to learn and understand the devastating human consequences of communist and socialist regimes. Linda McMahon urged classroom instruction on the destructive ideology of Communism...
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October 6 · 57 min
What do we lose if we abandon the Supreme Court?
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The Supreme Court is “distinctly American in concept and function,” as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes observed. No other court in the world has functioned as long and with one main purpose —to interpret and protect the Constitution. The ideas espoused during the Great Awakening were the underpinnings of the words in the Declaration of Independence...
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October 3 · 56 min
Teacher quality vs teachers’ unions
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Teacher shortages expose flaws in salary structures that reward seniority and advanced degrees over effectiveness. A new report urges schools to prioritize merit pay and higher salaries for hard-to-fill positions, while teachers’ unions oppose reforms aimed at improving student outcomes and retaining effective classroom educators...
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October 2 · 56 min
New Yorkers push back against Mamdani’s socialist tax grab
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – NYC homeowners received notices that they may owe Mamdani’s luxury property tax. State Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi ruled that the city must review all the information available to it and produce the records backing its claim before it arbitrarily decides a property is a second home subject to the tax...
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October 1 · 57 min
How truth is making its way back into education
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Trump’s Department of Education formally removes Biden’s expanded Title IX regulations, restoring the 2020 rule governing sex discrimination in federally funded schools. The change follows court rulings and emphasizes protections for women and girls, including privacy, safety, and athletic opportunities, while clarifying legal responsibilities for...
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September 30 · 57 min
Alabama puts the brakes on TikTok’s endless scroll
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Teen accounts will be unavailable from midnight to 6 a.m. Messaging and push alerts face extra limits overnight and during school hours. In addition, cosmetic filters are banned for teen users. Parents should take advantage of those productive pauses and trade their phones with their children for a good book. Perhaps it’s time to reclaim...
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September 29 · 56 min
The application for the Oklahoma Jewish charter school is allowed to proceed
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A federal judge rules that Oklahoma cannot reject a Jewish charter school’s application solely because of its religious character. The preliminary injunction allows Ben Gamla’s application to proceed without approving the school, reinforcing First Amendment religious freedom protections and challenging religious exclusions in the state’s publicly funded charter school program...
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September 26 · 57 min
The classroom should teach students how to think, not what to think
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Allegations that a teacher singles out and disparages a conservative eighth grader at a nationally ranked Florida school raise questions about parental rights, classroom debate, and political bias. True educational excellence requires teachers to protect students’ dignity and cultivate independent thought across differences in belief...
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