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What Are Schools For?

Quakers can advocate for alternatives to the dominant U.S. education paradigm that is based on industrial and military ideals of efficiency and control.

Thomas B. Farquhar

Quaker Works October 2017

A semiannual feature to connect Friends Journal readers to the good works of Quaker organizations* in the following categories: Advocacy…

Staff

How Education Changes Lives Behind Prison Walls

"Doing time" is a synonym for "incarceration." Too often, it means wasting time—and wasting opportunities to change lives through education.…

Dorothy Kinsman Brown

Friends Schools and Healthy Sexuality

Discussing sexuality in the Quaker classroom.

Al Vernacchio

Leading in the Light: Celebrating 325 Years of Quaker Education in America

Edited by Deborra Sines Pancoe, et al. Friends Council on Education, 2014. 129 pages. $15/paperback. Leading in the Light describes…

Reviewed by Diana Roose

Sparks and Spaces: Lived Experience in Friends Schools

We sit in circles. God is everywhere. There are no right answers. —Kindergartner’s response to parents’ question: What is Quaker…

IreneMcHenry

Quaker Works October 2018

A semiannual feature to connect Friends Journal readers to the good works of Quaker organizations.

Staff

Quaker Works October 2020

This semiannual feature highlights the recent works of Quaker organizations* in the following categories: Advocacy Consultation, Support, and Resources Development Education…

Quaker Works

Quaker Works April 2020

This semiannual feature highlights the recent works of Quaker organizations in eight categories.

Staff

Elitist Institutions?

Examining Quaker perceptions of Friends schools.

Louis Herbst