From the New York Times While current national data are not available, the number of schoolchildren in homeless families appears to have risen by 75 percent to 100 percent in many districts over the last two years, according to Barbara Duffield, policy director of the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, [...]
Posts under ‘education’
What to do…
Wendy and I chronicled some of the struggles that Mark has had at Mayfair School. The school faces declining enrollment and he has had split classes since grade 2. As he enters into grade 4, he has another split class. Apparently there are enough grade four kids for a class but not enough grade 3 [...]
Tall Skinny Bailout
Andrew Jones is blogging on the debt dependent church. Here are some of the gems from the post I have seen a number of Seminary graduates come overseas to hang with us and to potentially find work in the "emerging church". After a short time, they have gone back to USA disappointed that there are [...]
Seminary
I have been toying with the idea of going back to school this year and starting on my master’s degree. In what I don’t really know. The idea of a M.Div doesn’t excite me but I do want to study more theological issues. My problem is that I don’t really know where to go or [...]
Bullied
Wendy had a productive meeting today at the school about the fact that Mark is being pounded into the ground regularly by a bully at school. He has come home from school with bruises on his face several times and Wendy and I have been escorting him to school. That stops the violence going to [...]
60% Drop Out Rate
The problems are pretty complex at Jefferson High School With a 58 percent dropout rate, Jefferson has the worst dropout record in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest. “It’s horrendous,” said Debra Duardo, director of the dropout prevention and recovery program at the district, which averages 33.6 percent dropouts. While half the [...]
Hawthorn House Internship
This came from Jason Evans today and it will be of interest for some of you. “But why this starts a new season for us is that these programs commence a new project that we are taking on with the Ecclesia Collective. We are now in the process of developing an internship program. This program [...]
What’s New Around Here?
A couple of weeks ago I posted about The Blind Side which generated some good discussion in the comments. What caught me off guard were a couple of e-mails that were sent about the post and the hypocrisy in me posting it and advocating the position that I did. Apparently because I haven’t raised any [...]
9 Days Left: One Laptop Per Child
There is a 2 for 1 deal at the One Laptop Per Child’s website. Between November 12 and November 26, OLPC is offering a Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada. This is the first time the revolutionary XO laptop has been made available to the general public. For a donation [...]
Wisdom Wants To Be Free
I remember reading with great interest about the idea of the Disseminary when AKMA and Trevor started posting about it a couple of years ago. As the idea evolved, I started to think more and more about new ways of theological education in my local context and in many ways, it influenced the formation of [...]
The Present Church
Below is a rather wordy article for my denomination‘s magazine to help get people thinking outside the box in how we see the local church. Not sure if it worked but people have been saying nice things about it to my face at least For Lent this year, I decided to give up politics. In [...]
