Great Hearts Academies June 26, 2017 Understanding STEM at Great Hearts Great Hearts does not solely strive for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness through the Humanities. This pursuit continues in the disciplines of math and science, where a scholar seeks the essence of reality as well. In fact, in the Ancient World, many of the great philosophers were also scientists. So to at Great Hearts, we view […] Read More »
Great Hearts Academies June 12, 2017 Senior Thesis: The Great Hearts Capstone Receiving a Great Hearts education is a unique experience, just ask our seniors who will write and defend a thesis paper centered around one of the six great ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Justice, Equality, or Liberty. “We want our students to have three special experiences at the end of their Great Hearts education,” said Andrew […] Read More »
Great Hearts Academies June 12, 2017 Scholarship Advice from a Great Hearts Valedictorian Written by Ruth Oliver Arete Prep 2017 Valedictorian, 3-sport athlete, received a perfect ACT score, and will be attending Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College in the fall of 2017. While Great Heart seniors enter their final year of high school worried about balancing school, Senior Thesis, and college applications, their families have another concern: […] Read More »
Great Hearts Academies June 8, 2017 Amor Vincit Omnia: The Growing Popularity of Latin and Greek The language may be dead, but Latin is alive and well in schools around the country. In an article published in the June 8th, 2017 issue of the Wall Street Journal, Nina Sovich wrote, “Latin and Ancient Greek, once the purview of elite private and Catholic schools, are showing up in public school classrooms across […] Read More »
Great Hearts Academies June 6, 2017 Learning to Love Learning The information landscape has changed tremendously in the last decade. Thanks to social media, 24-hour cable news networks, and a little thing called the internet, news and information is available a la carte. With this influx of specifically targeted information, the abstract question arises, has society forgotten how to think when we can pick and […] Read More »