The phone company had to change our phone number in order to solve the problems we had with the first number that they gave us. It’s a long story and I don’t understand it. Our new new number is (281) 373-2233.

Covenant Academy has been located at Cypress Bible Church since the school began in 2003. We are now in the process of moving into our beautiful new location about 10 minutes west of our previous home. Our old phone number is supposed to ring at our old office for the rest of the week. The new phone number is [...]

This summer I’m helping teach a course in medical statistics. There are a few dozen students in the classroom in Houston, and several other students in two remote locations. The remote students see me via a camera pointed at my podium. The Houston students and I see the remote students projected on a screen at [...]

Tom Ziglar, son of the famous speaker and author Zig Ziglar, gave an interview recently on the Startup Story Radio podcast. One of the things that struck me about the interview was Tom’s respect and affection for his father. Rather than seek to make a name for himself, he seemed unashamed, even proud, to quote his [...]

Our school’s web site now includes a custom search engine by Google to allow visitors to search the site. http://www.covenantacademyhouston.org/search.html

Ben Dunlap told tells the remarkable story of Holocaust survivor Sandor Teszler here. Toward the end of his long life, Teszler told Dunlap that he believed people are basically good and exhorted Dunlap to believe the same. Christianity teaches two fundamental truths about humanity: we are created in the image of God, and we are fallen. Because [...]

The May 3/10 issue of World Magazine carries a story about pastor and author Eugene Peterson. When newcomers asked what activities his church offered, he replied “if you’d let me be your pastor I’d help you learn not to want so much activity.”

Because of record enrollment, Covenant Academy is planning to open new classes in grades 1, 2, 4, and possibly Kindergarten. If you would be interest in teaching for our school for the 2008-09 school year, please contact us. Update: We are opening a new Kindergarten class.

The May issue of Wired magazine carries a story entitled The Memory Master. The article portrays Piotr Wozniak as radically self-absorbed man obsessed with memorization, hardly a role model for classical education. However, Wozniak has discovered some principles that ring true and have empirical support. One of Wozniak’s principles is that the optimal time to review something [...]

Venture capitalist Paul Graham recently posted an essay entitled Be Good. His advice to start-up companies is Make something people want. Don’t worry too much about making money. He realizes this this is ”a description of a charity.” So to be a successful company, it pays to be like a charity. It also goes the other way around: … [...]