The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of GodMany of the problems afflicting American education are the result of a critical shortage of qualified teachers in the classrooms. The teacher crisis is surprisingly resistant to reforms and is getting worse. This analysis of the causes underlying the crisis seeks to offer concrete, affordable proposals for effective reform. Vivian Troen and Katherine Boles, two experienced classroom teachers and education consultants, argue that because teachers are recruited from a pool of underqualified candidates, given inadequate preparation, and dropped into a culture of isolation without mentoring, support, or incentives for excellence, they are programmed to fail. Half quit within their first five years. Troen and Boles offer an alternative, a model of reform they call the Millennium School, which changes the way teachers work and improves the quality of their teaching. When teaching becomes a real profession, they contend, more academically able people will be drawn into it, colleges will be forced to improve the quality of their education, and better-prepared teachers will enter the classroom and improve the profession. |
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... Resurrection of Jesus is the central fact of Christian devotion and the ground of all Christian thinking. The Resurrection was not a solitary occurrence, a prodigious miracle, but an event within the framework of Jewish history, and it ...
... Resurrection of Jesus is the central fact of Christian devotion and the ground of all Christian thinking. The Resurrection was not a solitary occurrence, a prodigious miracle, but an event within the framework of Jewish history, and it ...
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... Resurrection of Christ, were “made present.” In the third chapter I have tried to give a sense of how fresh, even astonishing, the Bible appeared to thinkers schooled in ancient literature. The Scriptures disclosed a world unlike ...
... Resurrection of Christ, were “made present.” In the third chapter I have tried to give a sense of how fresh, even astonishing, the Bible appeared to thinkers schooled in ancient literature. The Scriptures disclosed a world unlike ...
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... resurrection.” And centuries later at the end of the formative period of Christian history in the seventh century, Maximus the Confessor said that Christ's life was “strange and wondrous,” for it was “imprinted with the new power of a ...
... resurrection.” And centuries later at the end of the formative period of Christian history in the seventh century, Maximus the Confessor said that Christ's life was “strange and wondrous,” for it was “imprinted with the new power of a ...
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... church, as testimony to the truth of God.34 When Saint Paul appeared before the Athenians and spoke to them the “good news of Jesus and the Resurrection,” they said, “It sounds rather strange to us, so we would like to know what.
... church, as testimony to the truth of God.34 When Saint Paul appeared before the Athenians and spoke to them the “good news of Jesus and the Resurrection,” they said, “It sounds rather strange to us, so we would like to know what.
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... resurrection on the third day from the dead, and his session at the right hand of You his God and Father, and his second glorious and fearful coming when he will judge the living and the dead.... we offer to You O Lord, this awesome and ...
... resurrection on the third day from the dead, and his session at the right hand of You his God and Father, and his second glorious and fearful coming when he will judge the living and the dead.... we offer to You O Lord, this awesome and ...
Contents
Seek His Face Always | |
Not My Will But Thine | |
The End Given in the Beginning | |
The Reasonableness of Faith | |
Happy the People Whose God Is the Lord | |
The Glorious Deeds of Christ | |
Making This Thing Other | |
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING | |
Likeness to | |
INDEX OF BIBLICAL CITATIONS | |
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