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Beyond fighting Common Core, critic proposes schools exodus

May 11, 2015 2

By David Tulis A Common Core critic in the Chattanooga area appears to have made an important conceptual break with the public school system, organizing a group that views an exodus as vital as her …

Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, Tenn., teaches students how to deal with worldviews hostile to Christianity.

Theology brings paralysis, death to Tennessee Temple

March 8, 2015 0

By David Tulis The collapse of Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga tells of a faltering faction in Christianity that had its heyday in the 1960s in American fundamentalism’s peak. The school was a bastion of …

The story of Bartleby the scrivener by Melville depicts dogged noncompliance with authority. The book at right explains how Christians can flourish by being noncompliant and resisting “the good people.”

Bartleby’s ‘I prefer not to’ keeps us from schools, standardized tests

February 9, 2015 0

This image from the White House's website shows President Barack Obama doing somebody a favor.

My Brother’s Keeper may be lofty program, but borrows from knave

December 20, 2014 0

Please read my essay at Chattanoogan.com

Monteagle, Tenn., officers and deputies from Grundy and Marion counties make a sweep of an elementary school Nov. 17, 2014. They are holding toy guns. (Photo WRCBTV.com)

Despite SROs, walled compounds bring violent intruders on themselves

November 20, 2014 0

Please read my essay at The Chattanoogan

Tennessee Promise props broken system

October 29, 2014 0

Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream Gov. Bill Haslam’s giveaway of associate degrees to high school grads seeks to intervene on behalf of a bureaucratic schooling system facing erosion from the digital marketplace where PDFs, …

In this economy, you need to have a Plan B. (Graphic Oftwominds.com)

Local economy implies you have a Plan B as crisis builds

October 3, 2014 0

Public schooling: Getting out is not enough

September 23, 2014 0

By Tammy Drennan I talked with a young lady the other day – 14-years-old – who loves horses and aims to own stables and teach riding, among other things. She’s been working with horses since …

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