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Jeremy MannEducation
If you were a baker, and the flour was brought to you full of maggots and worms, you could not be expected to produce good bread.” This statement was made in the Colorado House of Representatives by Max Tyler (D-Lakewood), […]
Jeremy MannEducation
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 […]
Jeremy MannEducation
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 […]
Andrew WalkerEducation
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, […]
Jeremy MannEducation
Today I received on my desk an advanced copy of Wendy Kopp’s new book. In addition to being one of Time’s 100 most influential people in 2008, Kopp
Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
There is an enormous amount that I have to be grateful for. One year ago, I left my employment as a financial planner in order to pursue a crazy dream
Christopher BensonEducation
I earned my master's degree in liberal arts from the Graduate Institute of St. John's College (Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico). Mortimer Adler famously
Jake MeadorEducation
A bit more background on me: My focus during my undergraduate career was post-colonial African history. Someday I want to go to grad school to continue studying it. Depending on the program I get in, I might be able to […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
From Scott Adam's cheeky and amusing piece recommending that you invest in companies you hate: "When companies make money, we assume they are well-managed. That perception
Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
I just finished sending out Mere-O Monthly and thought I'd share it here. What? You haven't signed up for it? You should. It's
Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
Debilitating allergies have practically destroyed my ability to do much of anything this weekend, so reading and writing were a bit more difficult than normal. But I realized that I
Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
Which can only mean I’m weighing in with my own list. In case you missed it, folks have been listing the ten books that either influenced them, they liked the most, or are best in their category (like Dr. Sanders’ […]