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Jeremy MannEducation

TFA 20: Gladwell, Steinam, and Lewis

My first breakout session had Malcolm Gladwell facilitating a discussion between civil rights advocate and US Representative John Lewis, feminist Gloria Steinam, and a director of La Raza (didn’t catch the name, seemed like a big deal). I have fundamental […]

Cate MacDonald

On Homeschooling, from an 8th grader's perspective

Confession time: I was home-schooled my whole life, and it’s one of the things I am most passionate about (I think. It’s hard to say. I’m inordinately passionate about a lot of things). This morning I had the pleasure of […]

Jeremy MannEducation

Review of "One Day, All Children..."

Over the last twenty years, Teach For America has led 21,000 of the nation’s brightest young people into public education in low-income communities, where roughly 60% of them have stayed. Less than half of traditionally-trained teachers stay more than two […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

A Self-Imposed Silence: Fitzgerald's Response

Jonathan Fitzgerald responds to my point about the conversation that we cannot have: So then, does my calling for “a moratorium on debates over what qualifies as sin in other peoples’ lives” translate into a call for the end of […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Comments trouble.

Comments trouble.

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Taking on Caitlin Flanagan's Latest

Taking on Caitlin Flanagan's Latest

Kevin WhiteTheology and Practice

Armadillos in My Garden

Armadillos in My Garden

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

The Conversation Our Culture Cannot Have, But Must Anyway

The Conversation Our Culture Cannot Have, But Must Anyway

Matthew Lee AndersonBooks

*The Deep Things of God* in Christianity Today

*The Deep Things of God* in Christianity Today

Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and Practice

The Individualizing Presence

The Individualizing Presence

Andrew WalkerEducation

The Role of Ideologies in Christian Education

Can Christian higher education be non-ideological? Can Christian higher education divorce itself from raising issues of political implications? In a word: Absolutely not. Recently, I came across an interesting article from a former adjunct teacher at King’s College. King’s College, […]

Andrew Walker

The Plight of the Education Bubble

My friend Christopher Benson sent me this article the other day and it begs a wide reading. Foreboding as it is, “The Disposable Academic: Why Doing a PhD is Often a Waste of Time” is both clarifying and sobering. I’ll […]