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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... justice, courage, and temperance, a staple of classical moral philosophy, to present the distinctive features of Christian ethics. Others noted points of correspondence between biblical terms designating God's transcendence and Greek ...
... justice, courage, and temperance, a staple of classical moral philosophy, to present the distinctive features of Christian ethics. Others noted points of correspondence between biblical terms designating God's transcendence and Greek ...
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... justice and courage; nothing in life is more profitable for mortals than these.”6 A Book about Christ How the Bible ... justice and every person who would be happy cleaves to justice.” In Plato's Laws this.
... justice and courage; nothing in life is more profitable for mortals than these.”6 A Book about Christ How the Bible ... justice and every person who would be happy cleaves to justice.” In Plato's Laws this.
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Seeking the Face of God Robert Louis Wilken. would be happy cleaves to justice.” In Plato's Laws this axiom, which Plato himself had inherited from earlier tradition, had to do with the role of law in the life of the city, its divine ...
Seeking the Face of God Robert Louis Wilken. would be happy cleaves to justice.” In Plato's Laws this axiom, which Plato himself had inherited from earlier tradition, had to do with the role of law in the life of the city, its divine ...
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... the patriarchs were taught about God and the just were led into the path of justice, and who in the end of times was poured forth in a new manner upon men all over the earth renewing man to God.14 Irenaeus's summary resembles what later ...
... the patriarchs were taught about God and the just were led into the path of justice, and who in the end of times was poured forth in a new manner upon men all over the earth renewing man to God.14 Irenaeus's summary resembles what later ...
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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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