Summer Reading Assignment for all Educators

In His Steps
Book by Charles Sheldon

In His Steps is a best-selling book written by Charles Monroe Sheldon. First published in 1897, the book has sold more than 30,000,000 copies, and ranks as one of the best-selling book of all time.  It is the story of a pastor who challenges his congregation to ask the question of what Jesus would do in each situation they encounter for one year…and them do it.  The town was transformed!

Consider reading the book this summer and doing the same thing this next year in your school: What would Jesus do?  You will see an entire school transformed!

Click here to download your free copy of In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon from Gutenberg.org.

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Can We Have Common Standards and Resources Without Centralization?

The Heritage Foundation, through their blog, The Morning Bell, does a great job focusing attention on the issues relevant to preserving our culture. Recently the Morning Bell has been sounding off on a fairly regular basis against the Common Core National Standards and last week’s blog headline was, Join the Fight Against Common Core. While the blog raises some legitimate concerns, it paints the issue with a too broad brush.

The blog post makes two points. First, that over centralization of education is bad for students, schools and families. This concern rings true. Keeping education decision making at the individual school or classroom level is not just a good idea, it also honors biblical statements that parents should be the primary stewards of their children’s education.   However the second point of the blog, that the common core standards movement, “is an effort to centralize education by dictating the standards and assessments that will determine the content taught in every public school across the country,” need not be true if the standards are implemented judiciously.   Actually, with a restrained approach to implementing the common core standards they could be the key to developing an array of high quality educational resources, including textbooks, on line resources, sample lesson plans, improved college education curriculum, excellent teacher based classroom assessments and top notch professional development; all at a lower cost or in some cases no cost to schools, teachers and families. Further, with some care, the Common Core Standards could help free the American public from overly centralized public school systems.

  Washington Education Watch, June 2013

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