Pedagogy for the Distressed

Thinking about the Mission of Public Education

Setting the Stage: Why Does It Matter?

• Educating Whole People: A New ‘Common Core’ , Rev. Ginna Bairby
• The Centrality of Education in the Reformed Tradition, Duncan S. Ferguson
• Our Theology of Public Education, Rev. Dr. Ray Roberts
• Toward a Theology of the Child, Rev. Darcy Metcalfe Mudd
• The Vocation of Education: A Family Story, Bruce, Laura, and Emily Whearty

Stories From the Front Lines: Interviews with Educators

• Katie H. Pierce, High School Music Teacher
• David Wigger, Former Elementary School Teacher, Various Subjects
• Paul Kepler, Elementary School Teacher, Various Subjects
• Melissa Woods, Former Middle School Spanish Teacher and GED Tutor
• Laura Wagstaff, Undergraduate Academic Advisor
• Jim Irby, City Year Mentor and Classroom Aid, Elementary School
• Amy Wadsworth, High School History Teacher
• Laura Tornello, High School English Teacher
• Charles Freeman, Former University Professor
• Blake Guenther Benham, High School Social Studies Teacher
• Sandy Irby, Graduate School Program Administrator

Somewhere to Start: “Educate a Child, Transform the World” Campaign

• “Educate a Child, Transform the World”: The International Component, Interview with Frank Dimmock, World Mission Poverty Catalyst
• Teaching Girls in Pakistan: One Presbyterian’s Experience of International Educational Mission, Gina Meester
• The EBMI Project in Madagascar: Evidence-Based Methods of Instruction, Jan Heckler
• Into the Words…Recalling Our History: The Domestic Expression of “Educate a Child, Transform the World”, Rev Dr. Eileen Lindner

Struggles and Sacrifices

• Public Schools and the Public Good: The Social Contract We Have ‘Left Behind’, Jan Resseger
• Brown v. Board, The Little Rock Nine, and Presbyterian Public Witness, Rev. Don Campbell
  
• Growing up in the South During Brown v. Board, Dr. Christine Darden
• Embracing God’s Tapestry: On Full Inclusion of Children with Disabilities, Rev. Dr. Trace Haythorn
• The Cradle to Prison Pipeline: America’s New Apartheid, Marian Wright Edelman
• Degrees of Debt: Starting the Conversation at Home, Tad Hopp

Strategies and Solutions

• The Prime Time Parade: Walking the Church/School Boundary, Rev. Dave Brown
• Her Voice Matters: Women’s Colleges and Female Empowerment, Carol Ferguson
• Taking Back Our Education: The Rising Cost of College Tuition, Scott Rossiter
• Paying Rent Through Service: Freedom Schools with the Children’s Defense Fund, Sharde Chapman
• Financial Aid for Service: What the Presbyterian Mission Agency Can Offer Students in Debt, Laura Bryan
• Not Confined to the Margins: Presbyterian Racial Ethnic Schools and Colleges, Kristena Morse
• Educating for Values, Not Doctrine: The Kirk School, Rev. Lindsey Carnes and Carol Piekaar
• Teaching ELL for Mutual Learning, Blake Collins
• Growing Parent Power for Change, Interview with Patricia Jelly, O.S.

Closing Editorial

• Education and Formation: Personal and Public, Civic and Spiritual, Rev. Dr. Chris Iosso