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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... example, are sermons. The agenda of this book is set by the things Christians cared most about. The notion that the development of early Christian thought represented a hellenization of Christianity has outlived its usefulness. The time ...
... example, are sermons. The agenda of this book is set by the things Christians cared most about. The notion that the development of early Christian thought represented a hellenization of Christianity has outlived its usefulness. The time ...
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... example, moral life understood in terms of the virtues. At the same time, one observes again and again that Christian thinking, while working within patterns of thought and conceptions rooted in Greco-Roman culture, transformed them so ...
... example, moral life understood in terms of the virtues. At the same time, one observes again and again that Christian thinking, while working within patterns of thought and conceptions rooted in Greco-Roman culture, transformed them so ...
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... example, and I discuss only one aspect of the debate over the person of Christ. As far as possible, each chapter focuses on one or two persons whose thinking illustrates one of the themes of the book, and I have said little that cannot ...
... example, and I discuss only one aspect of the debate over the person of Christ. As far as possible, each chapter focuses on one or two persons whose thinking illustrates one of the themes of the book, and I have said little that cannot ...
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... example, the Holy Trinity and the person of Christ, in words and concepts, others sought to give expression to Christian truth in literature and art. The Christian poet Prudentius, the subject of chapter 9, celebrated the “glorious ...
... example, the Holy Trinity and the person of Christ, in words and concepts, others sought to give expression to Christian truth in literature and art. The Christian poet Prudentius, the subject of chapter 9, celebrated the “glorious ...
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... example, patience (or long-suffering) and humility. Finally, I turn to the passions (or affections) and hence to love. In the thinking of the church fathers, desire, the energy that moves one to do the good, gives way to love, the ...
... example, patience (or long-suffering) and humility. Finally, I turn to the passions (or affections) and hence to love. In the thinking of the church fathers, desire, the energy that moves one to do the good, gives way to love, the ...
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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