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Gateways to Better Education

  • Public education
  • Christian educators

Teacher with studentsSubmitted by Harold Klassen

Gateways to Better Education exists to promote "religious freedom in public schools" in the United States. As a nonprofit organization founded in 1991, they seek "to help public school educators, parents and school leaders foster faith-welcoming schools as well as teach about the Bible and Christianity without mixing church and state."

"While some Christians have an "us-versus-them" mentality about public schools, Gateways urges the Church to see that Christians are also "them." There are millions of Christians currently in public schools. They are found at every level and include superintendents, school board members, administrators, educators, parents, and students.  Barna Research's polling data indicates that 84% of church-attending families send their children to public schools and nearly 50% of public school educators are Christians who attend church and say that their faith is very important in their lives."

Join Turning Learning Facebook Group

  • Christian educators

group cover photoSubmitted by Harold Klassen

Join Turning Learning: A Meeting Place for Christian Educators Facebook Group

The goal of this group is to be a catalyst for major reform of education through a biblically wholistic approach that dispenses with "sacred-secular dualism," and creates culture that is in alignment with Christ.
 
The philosophy behind Turning Learning is explained in the on-line course, "Increase Meaning: A Wholistic Approach To Christian Education," based on the books LifeWork, by Darrow Miller, and Assumptions That Affect Our Lives, by Christian Overman. (For more details, see http://biblicalworldview.com/Increase%20Meaning%20Course.docx.)
  

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Educators as Learners: Opportunities for professional learning

  • Christian Deeper Learning
  • Christian educators

Good schools bannerSubmitted by Harold Klassen

Dan Beerens, September 7, 2021, The CACE Roundtable says given the disruptive nature of life these days and the press of the urgent at this time of year, I thought it might be a public service to aggregate professional development opportunities and resources for you to consider. My list is not all inclusive, so if you have an event or resource you wish to add, please do so in the comment section below.

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The incredible opportunity for Christian education

  • Christian schools
  • Christian educators

Good schools bannerSubmitted by Harold Klassen

John Stonestreet in Breakpoint Colson Center, September 14, 2021, says According to the U.S. Department of Education, since the start of the pandemic, more than 1.5 million students have left traditional public schooling. Parents and students, it seems, are looking for something different.

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Christian schools should be thoroughly Christian

  • Christian schools

Good schools bannerSubmitted by Harold Klassen

John Stonestreet in Breakpoint Colson Center, September 14, 2021, says last week, a U.S. District judge ruled against a Catholic school that had fired a male teacher for announcing that he planned to marry his male partner. Coming from a judge notably progressive on sex and marriage issues, who cited last year’s consequential Bostock decision, this wasn’t much of a surprise. However, a significant part of his reasoning was: the Catholic school was not Catholic enough. 

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Good schools, good citizens

  • Independent schools
  • Citizenship
  • Civics
  • Democracy

Good schools bannerSubmitted by Harold Klassen

Ashley Berner in Cardus, June 30, 2021, asks an important question, "Do independent schools contribute to civic formation?" One of the reasons that many people inside the church as well as outside it are reluctant to support independent schools is the assumption that they will be less effective than public schools at helping students contribute to the common good by becoming well-adapted members of their diverse, multicultural communities. This research helps dispel the myth that socialization and civic formation is somehow distorted or underdeveloped in independent schools.

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Do schools exist for students or teachers?

  • Teachers
  • Students
  • Student-centered education

By George Durance

Reflections on Michael Strains, “Do Schools Exist for Students or Teachers?” from the National Review, June 28, 2021

There is a feel-good mantra educators often hear and too often glibly repeat: “It’s all about the students.” It is hard to imagine boards, faculty-teachers and the taxpaying public saying and believing otherwise. And certainly students mature enough to understand the question would assume “it” is, in fact, about them—their growth, development, safety, affirmation and preparation for the future, that is, about their holistic wellbeing.

Practice suggests a more complicated reality. Parents, older students, and a host of social critics have questioned the truthfulness of this statement. In doing so, they point to everything from inappropriate physical settings to the hours of instruction and misguided budgets, all of which suggest other priorities are at play in the system.

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Could home education be more than just a backup plan?

  • Homeschools

Neufeld InstituteSubmitted by George Durance

Is going to school a basic human need…to learn, to be socialized, to develop citizenship? Development theorist Gordon Neufeld looks at the situation in Europe and North America and argues, "It depends." This is a thoughtful, instructive essay that rejects simplistic, categorical, unidimensional answers.

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