The Declaration of Independence, 4th of July and the MTR
Independence Day July 4, 2010 Last night at dinner Team Montague “celebrated” Independence Day. ...
Pitt Hyde, AutoZone and the Innovative Power in Memphis
Pitt Hyde, AutoZone founder and Memphis philanthropist, came to share with the MTR Class of 2011 on June 9th. Among other things, he stressed the importance of CREATING and ENVIRONMENT where everyone wants to EXCEL. Everyone wants...
Holiday Inn and the Innovative Power in Memphis
Kem Wilson Jr., Principal and Executive Vice President of the Kemmons Wilson Companies and son of Holiday Inns founder Kemmons Wilson, spoke to the MTR on June 14th. Kem shared with us his father's life story and the influence of Holiday...
Housing in Memphis and in Heaven
(Urban Context 1.1)Hope VI Revitalization Program is a federal housing redevelopment initiative that began in 1993. The goal is to use federal money to incentivize urban areas to redevelop low-income housing projects into more attractive and sustainable communities. Memphis has just won its fifth...
Factories, Wal-Mart and Paul on the importance of great urban teachers
Urban Context (1.0)Recently, I posted a blog describing the forces impacting large urban cities, like Memphis. Most significantly, technology and outsourcing have significantly reduced the number of mid-level jobs in American cities. Mid-level jobs are those jobs that required mid-level skills and paid...
Harvard, Solzhenitsyn and a Christian Take on Urban Education
For important urban context (1.1) see "As jobs fade away" in the May 8th Economist.This is an excellent overview of what is significantly impacting our lower-educated urban population. In summary, over the past 30 years or so, technology has drastically improved efficiencies and therefore drastically...
The Deep Magic of Jesus, Narnia and Urban Education
See Minding the Education Gap, from Miller-McCune on May 18.(http://www.miller-mccune.com/business-economics/minding-the-education-gap-16074/)He points out what we already know...
Vandy Hook Ups and a Gospel Centered Sex Ethic…
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/04/19/college.anti.hookup.culture/index.html?hpt=C2My nephew, John, sent me the above link to a CNN article about the culture of "hook ups" on the Vanderbilt (and most any) college campus.Briefly, it describes the pervasive (estimated 75%+) experience of college students getting drunk and hooking up with strangers on most...
Social Mobility, Inequality and the Gospel
I read an interesting article in the Economist last night, "Social mobility and inequality, Upper Bound", http://www.economist.com/world/united-states/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15908469. (MTR Language Arts Wall: Yes. You underline titles of magazines, newspapers, books, and movies. The titles of parts inside them, such as...
Urban Education and the God of Sight
I recently talked with a college student who was considering either the MTR (urban education) or medical school (medicine) as his first steps toward a career. After several weeks of consideration, he emailed me to let me know he...