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Matt Emerson's essays have appeared in a number of publications, including America, Commonweal,
Articles: Fruitful Searching (Jan. 5-12, 2015) Preambles for Faith (May 13, 2013) Posts at The Ignatian Educator
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Posting as I rsquo ve done recently about spiritual autobiographies has got me thinking about one of the most influential books I rsquo ve ever read in any genre Pope Benedict XVI rsquo s nbsp Introduction to Christianity Published in 1968 when Pope Benedict was Cardinal Ratzinger I read it fir
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How much homework is too much What is a correct homework policy How do we distinguish the right kind of homework from quot busy work quot as students call much of it These questions come to mind as I reflect upon another education article nbsp in nbsp the October issue of nbsp The Atlantic In
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Last week as regular readers know I asked people to recommend works in the field of spiritual autobiography or any book essay article in the genre of ldquo faith journey rdquo I supplied my initial list and I asked for additional selections both within the Roman Catholic Tradition and without
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Dear Readers I need your depth and insight I 39 m working on a project for both my teaching and writing and for it I need a list of readings in the field of spiritual autobiography Because of that I 39 m asking for your recommendations It could be a book an essay or an article anything re
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When I was in grade- and high school math was my arch-intimidator I didn 39 t enjoy it and at some point I decided I wasn 39 t a quot math person quot It felt like a game I couldn 39 t master In English and history and all the subjects that called for weighing and balancing and writing I
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"Thinking of education in terms of planting seeds invites me to pray for a saintly kind of patience."
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quot Warily Schools Watch Students on the Internet quot So reads a headline in the New York Times today on a matter that 39 s now dominating the news and this blog nbsp The article written by Somini Sengupta nicely summarizes various points of concern arising from the interaction s of schoo
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October brings the World Series and Halloween and for teachers it rsquo s that mid-semester point when we accept that our school year will not go as planned The syllabus has gone through a couple revisions the course calendar has been reworked and we start to hear the footprints of December rsq
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As readers of this blog know I 39 ve addressed some of the ways that students are harming themselves and others through the destructive use of Facebook Twitter and other forms of social media These same concerns were the subject of a controversial op-ed in yesterday 39 s Wall Street Journal Th
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Last week while discussing the Common Core State Standards CCSS I wrote that whether quot people oppose or support the CCSS conversations reflect the same assumptions that mark most proposals for education reform The implicit idea seems to be nbsp that if we just had a certain program or idea