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Changing the Rules of Scrabble
Cultural pressure seems to emphasize competitive achievement through conflict and winning. We would like to share how rule changes in…
Friends Association for Higher Education: Serving Mind and Spirit
In 1993 I had recently received tenure as an associate professor of English at a state university with an undergraduate…
An Approach to Religious Education
Members of the Menomonie Ministerial Association (M.A.M.A) stared at me in slack-jawed silence. We had been in the midst of…
Finding Home at The Meeting School
I spent my sophomore and junior years of high school at The Meeting School, a small Quaker boarding school on…
The Phoenix School For Girls
Early on an unseasonably cool, young September morning, a few firecrackers cut through the thick mist enveloping Xiaoshicun (Little Stone…
Parent Involvement
As the cofounder of a parent-cooperative, early childhood education, community-based program that grew to become a school, I offer some…
Talking to Bob
On a clear, cool Friday afternoon several months ago, I led a small group of third-graders up to the ham…
Meetings for Learning
When I think of writing about Quaker higher education in general, and the Resident Program at Pendle Hill in particular,…
Gentle Persuader and Loyal Friend: Mary Stone McDowell
In December 1955 the New York Times published an obituary, titled "Mary McDowell, Peace Crusader." The subtitle read: "Teacher Dismissed…
Intergenerational Learning in Friends Schools
Quakers believe in truth-seeking as a process of continuing revelation, seeing life as a journey of learning from one’s experiences…
Exploring and Discovering a Friends School Meeting
When I first began teaching at a Friends school seven years ago, what I knew of Quakers derived mostly from…
Learning Peace in Time of War: A Classroom Retrospective
For four years I’ve been teaching a required interdisciplinary course on violence and nonviolence, called Peace and War, at Johnson…
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