It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model
of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.
But nothing is more concrete than the differences among the racial, gender, and socioeconomic locations of persons involved in theological schooling, nor more concrete than the differences among the practices through which persons have sought to understand God, nor more concrete than the differences between the ways in which models
of excellent schooling have been institutionalized.
Both types
of excellent schooling are deeply institutionalized in the practices that constitute American theological education of all sorts; neither one can simply be abandoned by a faculty vote!
might suggest that, with its roots in «Jerusalem,» Christianity in fact theologically mandates a third type
of excellent schooling altogether, one hitherto ignored by major Christian communities.
However, the «Berlin» type
of excellent schooling did dictate prevailing standards of academically respectable education, which theological education embraced and to which it has held itself accountable.
Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types
of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?
In this chapter the author names two quite different models
of excellent schooling.
As we saw in chapter 2, North American theological schools are located on various «Roads» and «Streets,» all of which in one way or another have historically taken paideia as the model
of excellent schooling.
Late - twentieth - century theological schools in North America, however, exhibit the strain of trying to appropriate two quite different models
of excellent schooling, both of which are by this time traditional in our cultural setting.
One of the main reasons for the establishment
of these excellent schools was to train an adequate number of preachers to remedy the problem of the large and increasing numbers of people who were given to ignorance and decadence in this country.
While Mr. de Blasio and his schools chancellor have softened their rhetoric toward charters, Ms. Moskowitz and her allies with the charter umbrella group Families
of Excellent Schools have consistently accused the Department of Education of «failing» black and Hispanic students.
It has a beautiful heritage
of excellent schools including Dr Are's GCI, Loyola College, Ibadan, Olivet Baptist High School, Ibadan Grammar School, Yejide Girls, St Annes, St Teresa's and Maryway Grammar School, but Oyo State can not even maintain these schools!
In this vein, a number
of excellent school models have developed organically in rural communities.
Programs developed locally, whose founders have a deep understanding of the culture of our state and the needs of its children, are the best possible leaders for a new generation
of excellent schools.
«It also contradicts Nicky Morgan's recent statement in which she said «Academies are just one part of the picture, and their work is complemented by thousands
of excellent schools in the maintained sector.»
Interestingly, the quality research shows that one hallmark
of an excellent school is that the whole school is organized to recognize and meet individual children's learning needs.
Our portfolio should build on that cumulative success and add the new strategies, technologies, and ideas that, together, will yield the next generation
of excellent schools.
It was a beautiful feeling to have him speak on behalf of our vision
of excellent schools at LAUSD board meetings.
BPS has committed to creating a K - 12 system
of excellent schools that ensures that all young people have access to high - quality educational options that prepare them well for future success.
It can be really useful to visit a number
of excellent schools even if you don't want or can't afford to send your child there.
Dr. Howard Fuller, one of the country's leading advocates for public school choice, spoke about the importance
of excellent schools at «Parents as Partners,» a major school information fair that ExED co-hosted in Exposition Park in Los Angeles.
The tours have been a powerful mechanism for showcasing the work
of excellent schools and showing leaders in the community what is possible in schools with the right conditions in place.
«We believe that quality should always trump quantity,» Dan Varner, executive director
of Excellent Schools Detroit said in the statement.
In 2014, Michael Vargas returned to his hometown of San Benito with a vision
of excellent schools and communities.
Recommendations address the major barriers limiting growth of the sector's best, such as scarcity
of excellent school leaders, funding for growth, and motivation of charter leaders to grow while maintaining excellence.
Last May, as Nancy Everhart (at the time she was president of AASL) was finishing her Vision Tour
of excellent school libraries around the country, she announced 100 things that students would miss if school librarians were...
When considering the economic opportunities, the close proximity
of excellent schools, specialty stores, boutiques, supermarkets, shopping centers, and the convenient access to high quality medical care, Shreveport is an ideal place to live and work.
Furthermore, there are plenty
of excellent schools for student renters including the Wyoming Laramie County Community College (LCCC).
Because
of its excellent school system, friendly neighborhoods, and low cost of living, many find Cornith an ideal place to call home.
Irvine homes for lease are in great demand, because
of excellent schools, lots of good jobs and employment opportunities in the area, close proximity to UC Irvine campus, people moving to Irvine, and that some folks are unable to buy a home at this time.
Not exact matches
To «gussy» oneself up, Cleveland, proprietor
of the
excellent Finishing
School blog, advises gents to consider a nice pocket square or a pair
of great cufflinks, while ladies can take their pick
of jewelry.
While we believe the 10 programs featured on our list are
excellent schools, this list doesn't provide a full picture
of the Canadian MBA landscape, nor does it factor in individual needs.
(The aforementioned Sherkow, an associate professor at New York Law
School, has a great take on the cinematic twists and turns
of the case — including some curious legal strategies and the mysterious role
of an anonymous third party — at Stanford Law
School's infrequent but
excellent Law and Biosciences Blog.)
With an
excellent credit score (I have a solid 755 + and pay balances in full each month for nearly 10 years), a degree from an accredited
school and steady income, this doesn't make a whole lot
of sense.
Citing the
school's strong community engagement, growing research success and excellent reputation, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) has re-accredited the Haskayne School of Business for another five
school's strong community engagement, growing research success and
excellent reputation, the Association to Advance Collegiate
Schools of Business (AACSB) has re-accredited the Haskayne
School of Business for another five
School of Business for another five years.
While you can still easily find barbers that offer a traditional wet straight razor shave, straight razors are also making a bit
of a comeback amongst regular guys as well — both for the old -
school appeal and the fact that they provide an
excellent shave.
Brian Bushee from the Wharton
School of Business wrote an
excellent paper back in 2005 that highlighted the behavioral differences among institutional investors.
Pro football, far and away the most riveting
of television sports events, is clearly superior to its college counterpart, which,
excellent at its best, can fade to unutterable tedium when the game is the Utah
School of Mines vs. the University
of Southern North Dakota at Hoople.
I get confused about what excellence can mean from institution to institution, given the American practice
of grading colleges; even the much less than superlative
schools claim to be
excellent.
Its concreteness in part consists
of its own internal arrangements
of power and status, and its
schooling is
excellent to the extent that built into those institutionalized arrangements are mechanisms fostering ideology critique within the
school.
A second set
of marks
of excellence in theological
schooling comes into view when we turn to reflect on the concreteness
of a theological
school: Its concreteness consists in part in its having institutionalized practices
of governance, and its
schooling is
excellent to the extent that its polity leaves room so that the effort to understand God can be genuine by being free to err.
Similarly, although many
schools do
excellent work promoting knowledge and understanding
of racism and poverty, it is much rarer to find even Catholic
schools having Pro-life Awareness Weeks as a standard annual whole -
school activity in which pupils are encouraged to understand the justice and coherence
of Church teaching on abortion and related issues.
Its concreteness in part consists
of its transactions with its immediate host community, and its
schooling is
excellent to the extent that its transactions are deliberately and self - critically shaped in such a way that what they symbolize to the immediate neighborhood and what they teach members
of the
school community itself are consonant with the concepts taught and learned in its central practices.
or the first time, more than 100,000 engineers are graduating from American
schools every year, and we're on track to accomplish my goal
of training 100,000
excellent new STEM teachers in a decade.
In accord with the «Athens» type, Wood insists that what makes theological
schooling excellent schooling is that it shapes sound theological judgment; through this paideia we acquire a habitus, albeit a habitus for action that is self - critical in the modern sense
of «critique» — a sense that ancient Athens knew nothing
of.
Traveling from ducks to insects to people, the «if» method
of the Stanislavsky
school of acting is also
excellent for limbering up one's imagination to the point where «the sufferings
of the Chinese» (or, in our own day, the people
of the Sahel) become real to one.
Each chapter discusses an aspect
of the one theme that the central purpose
of all education — whether in homes,
schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area
of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation
of persons from the life
of self - centered desire to that
of devoted service
of the
excellent, and at the same time the creation
of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.
At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards
of leading graduate
schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more
excellent version
of Catholic higher education.»
It furnishes us with a clear and authentic statement
of Catholic teaching on education and provides
excellent guidance and suggestions for its implementation in Catholic
schools.
They tend to withdraw into gated communities, with private security guards and «enclaves
of good
schools,
excellent health care, and first - rate infrastructures — all the while scoffing at almost all functions
of government, thus cutting off the supply
of taxes for most public undertakings — leaving much
of the rest
of the population behind.»