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April 2014: Education

Student Voices Project: The Testimony of Integrity
15 Years of the Bridge Film Festival: Interview with Andrew Cohen
Friends Education: Our Light for the World: Galen McNemar Hamann
Quakers and Unschooling: Seres Kyrie
The Gun Play Dilemma: Jennifer Arnest
Quaker Institutional Identity: R. Melvin Keiser
Elitist Institutions?: Louis Herbst
Quaker Leadership and Education: Alexander Levering Kern

Features

The Gun Play Dilemma

How one Friends school handles fantasy play in the early elementary classroom. Jennifer Arnest
Features

Quaker Institutional Identity

What makes an institution Quaker? R. Melvin Keiser
Features

Elitist Institutions?

Examining Quaker perceptions of Friends schools. Louis Herbst
Features

Quaker Leadership and Education

Three stories and a vision of recovering joy. Alexander Levering Kern
Poetry

A Long Way To Run In This Cruelest of Months

Phidippides / Two thousand and some years ago / ran all alone / on his forty thousand meter footfall from… Robert E. Young
Poetry

Light a Candle

Boston is ablaze with anger, candles, and prayers… I add my candles and prayers for the victims Namaya

QICSEF Dissolves After Two Decades of Service

Honoring the Quaker Inner-City School Endowment Fund Peg Szczurek

Books: April 2014

This month's reviews include The Essential Elias Hicks, The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, and A Guidebook to Prayer.

Reviewed by Staff

Milestones: April 2014

Notices for Barbara M. Boggs, Olin M. Byerly, Eleanor Means Hull, Jack Kraushaar, Dimitri Mihalas, and Amy Hodel Weber. Staff

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