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...
Urban Education and Where the Red Fern Grows
So my wife and I have a 2010 Book Reading list. Book One was Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. We picked this book because our third daughter, Ruthie, was reading it in her 5th grade English class. This provided...
Urban Education and Genteel Decline
Recently, I read a fascinating article from the December 12th issue of The Economist entitled Lessons from "The Leopard" (http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15065405).The article explained the concept of "genteel decline" from the book The Leopard. This is a fictional novel that tells the story of a rich...