The Common Good

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No Shortcuts to Excellence
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Gregory Fritzberg 'Easy' solutions like standardized testing won't solve enduring problems like economic inequality. ...

Teach Your Children Well
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ryan Beiler Leading Venezuelan educators and critics of President Hugo Chavez are calling his creation of 500 schools constructed and supe ...

Daily Resurrections of Hope
Originally Posted: 08/06/2012 - 4:48pm | Type: Magazine Article

Sara Wenger Shenk The big hearts of small friends. Jonathan Kozol, whose books have pricked the American cons ...

Where Credit is Due
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Elizabeth Newberry How many colleges does it take to change a community? In college I heard a joke that asked, ...

A Path Between the Extremes
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Duane Shank True or false: The Bible has no place in school. 1) True or false: Given a homework assignment to ...

School House Lock
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Celeste Kennel-Shank A school system cannot hope to solve school violence simply by increasing security. As th ...

The (Church and) State of Our Schools
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Duane Shank Will there still be public education for your children's children? The Supreme Court has acce ...

A Resurrection of Campus Activism
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Holly Lebowitz Rossi From sit-ins against sweatshops to lobbying against religious persecution, many students today are proving themselves ...

Sex Matters
Originally Posted: 03/21/2013 - 1:47pm | Type: Magazine Article

Kari Jo Verhulst Why we can't ignore gender bias in the classroom. In May the U.S. Supreme Court declare ...

Stone Upon Stone
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Hans Hallundbaek A remarkable new "seminary-behind-walls" program at Sing Sing prison helps to rebuild lives and offer hope. ...

Degrees of Influence
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Kristin Brennan The corporatization of higher education. Large corporations hold more power than ever in our s ...

In the Meantime, What About Our Schools?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Oliver Thomas How to fix public education. The voucher debate rages on, one side shouting, "Healthy compe ...

Teaching a Living Theology
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Stacy Johnson Christian education and everyday life. How can faith be proclaimed in a manner that will be both ...

At Home, In the World
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Susan Gushue When we made the decision to take our older two children out of public school, my husband and I felt it was the only real cho ...

Praying for Power
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Julie Polter Unholy alliance pushes more than religious freedom. Some Christians have tried for a "school ...

School Vouchers: Empty Promises
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Nanette M. Roberts The wrong answer to the right question. In a sense, the whole "voucher-school choice&q ...

School Vouchers: Expanded Choices
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Charles L. Glenn The social benefits of empowered parents. Nothing could be more futile than to debate—as so m ...

Neutral and Free
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Oliver Thomas Religion, values, and the public schools. Despite the rhetoric of some preachers and politician ...