CACE | The Center for the Advancement of Christian Education

There is a question sitting beneath almost every strategic conversation I hear happening in Christian schools today. It surfaces in board meetings, in hiring cycles that stretch too long, in resignation letters that arrive too soon. It is the question of people—specifically, whether your school can find, form, and retain the kind of teachers who make everything e...

A number of years ago, I had the privilege of serving on a curriculum-writing team led by CACE’s own Darryl DeBoer. We spent a week in Seattle building a K–12 curricular supplement for Christian schools. As the Friday deadline approached, many of us became increasingly anxious. The work wasn’t finished, flights were looming, and every glance at the clock seemed to reveal anot...

I went into my doctoral research expecting theology to do the heavy lifting. I was wrong.

For my dissertation, I studied how Christian evangelical leaders in large corporations navigate questions of inclusion and belonging. I assumed that a leader’s denomination and doctrine would predict and influence how they approached difference. Tell me what someone believe...

School choice policies help families access schools other than their residentially assigned traditional public school. Private school choice policies, which provide students with public funds to choose a private educational setting, have made much progress across the United States in recent years.

The latest growth in choice comes from universal school choice pr...

Heartland Christian Schools is entering a new chapter through a new partnership with Dordt University’s Center for the Advancement of Christian Education (CACE), ensuring continued suppor...