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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... writing of this book has stretched over several years, and many people have made a difference at key points in its composition. Among them are Gary Anderson, David Burrell, Robert Dodaro, Jeremy Driscoll, Allan Fitzgerald, Harry Gamble ...
... writing of this book has stretched over several years, and many people have made a difference at key points in its composition. Among them are Gary Anderson, David Burrell, Robert Dodaro, Jeremy Driscoll, Allan Fitzgerald, Harry Gamble ...
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... writings. Early Christian thought is biblical, and one of the lasting accomplishments of the patristic period was to forge a way of thinking, scriptural in language and inspiration, that gave to the church and to Western civilization a ...
... writings. Early Christian thought is biblical, and one of the lasting accomplishments of the patristic period was to forge a way of thinking, scriptural in language and inspiration, that gave to the church and to Western civilization a ...
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... writings of Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa. Their goal was to forge a view of creation and of human beings that was biblical, yet intelligible and coherent to all reasonable persons. Then come two chapters dealing with the ...
... writings of Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa. Their goal was to forge a view of creation and of human beings that was biblical, yet intelligible and coherent to all reasonable persons. Then come two chapters dealing with the ...
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... writings were composed by Christians for Christians. These include the gospels, epistles written by Saint Paul to Christian congregations scattered about the Mediterranean world, letters of bishops like Ignatius of Antioch and Clement ...
... writings were composed by Christians for Christians. These include the gospels, epistles written by Saint Paul to Christian congregations scattered about the Mediterranean world, letters of bishops like Ignatius of Antioch and Clement ...
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... writings. The physician-philosopher Galen, a younger contemporary of Justin, was acquainted with the account of creation in the book of Genesis. He thought it irrational that God would create the world by an act of will without regard ...
... writings. The physician-philosopher Galen, a younger contemporary of Justin, was acquainted with the account of creation in the book of Genesis. He thought it irrational that God would create the world by an act of will without regard ...
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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