{"id":1177,"date":"2025-06-30T23:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2025-06-30T23:29:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:29:28","slug":"the-change-face-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2025\/06\/the-change-face-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Face of Education: Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I was homeschooled most of my k-12, attending a couple years of private school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2011 I founded Roman Roads Press<\/a> with the specific goal of publishing classical curriculum for homeschoolers, as most of the curriculum at the time was merely adapted for home use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But since 2011 and 2025, some fairly major shifts happened in private education, and the great divide between “traditional schools” (5-day, brick-and-mortar schools), and homeschooling all but disappeared. The majority of private education now happens in an “in between” that did not exist when I was growing up. The “solo-homeschooler” has all but disappeared, and traditional schools are borrowing more and more from homeschooling principles. Most of the clientele of Roman Roads Press is now somewhere in that “in between.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I plan to unpack this in a series of posts, but to start, a question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you grew up with a Christian education, from your vantage point, how has education changed? (If you have kids, what are you doing for their education?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image: A one-room schoolhouse from early America, to illustrate just how much change has happened. Likely none of us experienced anything like that, yet I’m including to illustrate how norms change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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