In a presentation
at the American Educational Research Association’s Annual Conference, William Jeynes, Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, and a professor at California State University in Long Beach, shared long-awaited results of his research on the factors that most reliably reduce the achievement gap.
This year marks
the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible, and it’s worth remembering how that timeless translation has had such power to transmit the idea of self-government—first in America’s founding, and still today.
Starting on March 11,
the day the earthquake and tsunami devastated the Tohoku Region of Japan, the Soka Gakkai Buddhist Association, which has a large grassroots network of members and local community centers throughout the country, created emergency task forces at its headquarters in Tokyo and throughout the affected region.
At least 140 airports
around the world have designated chapels, and more than 250 have airport chaplains, according to the International Association of Civil Aviation Chaplains, an ecumenical nonprofit organization.
A new survey
conducted on the heels of Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami finds that few Americans think natural disasters are signs from God and that even fewer believe God punishes nations for the sins of its citizens, as some suggested after the Japanese disaster.
In response
to the tumultuous political struggles unfolding around the globe, KidSpirit Online, the award-winning online magazine and forum for teenagers, launched its spring issue [March 7] on the topic of Conflict and Peacemakers.
