There is limited aggregated data showing the amount and levels of preparedness training for active shooter situations in public, academic, and K-12 libraries in California and across the United States. The purpose of this research is to assess the sta . . .

Accompanied by increasing demands on school administrator preparation and rapid development of computer technology, educational statistics courses are exposed to unprecedented pressures for changing both curriculum content and computing platforms. In . . .

In this study, H. Walberg's theory of educational productivity was used to guide a confirmatory examination of the relationship between student career aspiration and factors of educational productivity, using data from the National Education Longitudi . . .

An empirical approach is adopted in this article to explore a possible model for the prediction of students’ science achievement in China and the United States. The construction of the model was based on the ninth-grade data base from Phase 11 of the . . .

Parental influence has been identified as an important factor affecting student achievement, but the variables addressed by various parent-school partnership programs vary, and lack literature support. This deficiency was ameliorated in this study thr . . .

The article presents an examination into the hagiographic depictions of the life of the 4th-century Christian desert father Paisios, also known as Bishoy. Discussion is given focusing on the saint's typological role and description as a didaskalos and . . .

The themes in the early monastic sayings and stories, some of them discussed here, are not neatly numbered and segregated as a linear presentation necessarily makes them; they’re much more like marrow and bone, bone and sinew, sinew and muscle, muscle . . .

A literary criticism for the book "Cold War Letters" by Thomas Merton is presented. Topics discussed include political action informed by principles of religious and philosophical wisdom; separate religion and politics rested on a thoroughly religious . . .

Abba Agathon (4th–5th c.) does not have even a cameo role in Hugh G. Evelyn White’s monumental and magisterial study of the early Christian monks of Egypt,2 William Harmless’s Desert Christians,3 or Adalbert de Vogüé’s Histoire littéraire du movemen . . .

Something like 90% of classical Greek and Roman literature is lost to us. This realization becomes acute, even heartbreaking, when we think of how very little of the little we have is by women. An exception that proves the rule is Plutarch’s “Sayings . . .

The article offers information on the metaphor and exegesis in the sayings of Amma Syncletica of Egypt. Topics discussed include dismissal of metaphor above uses metaphor; Jewish and Christian exegetes a good living, including Jesus and Paul in Bible; . . .

A camel, a horse, a troupe of pigs rising from the waters of the Nile; an ostrich with its young; genuflecting crocodiles; souls flying up to heaven, a malevolent giant stopping some of them; a female monk who has transgressed; a dummy dressed up like . . .

The article discusses the practice of transformational reading among monks. It mentions books including "S. J.: Tattoos on the Heart" by Gregory Boyle, and "Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship" by Kathleen Norris which look into the lif . . .

When I first proposed to Father Terrence Kardong a new translation, with commentary, of the sayings attributed to Arsenius of Seeds in the Greek Alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum (et Matrum), he was enthusiastic, but then drily added that he was not s . . .

The article offers the information on the sayings of the of Antony the Great who was the was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. Topics discussed including Antony's spiritual world or psychological world; work and pray, pr . . .

Compared with other eminences of early Christian monasticism in Egypt—Antony the Great, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, Macarius of Alexandria, Poemen, Moses the Black, and others—Pshoi of Scetis is relatively unknown, at least in the West. 4 In Coptic . . .

With the four poems discussed in this essay, Rowan Williams brings us deep into a land of both likeness and unlikeness. These thoroughly incamational poems are not besotted with the baby Jesus, but rather turn our attention to ourselves as incarnated . . .

The article discusses the life of the eighth-century holy person Apa Matthew the Poor. Topics include the monastery named after Saint Pachomius probably founded by Apa Matthew, the work of biographer Serapion on the life of Apa Matthew and Matthew's v . . .

Denise Levertov gathered the poems in The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes from seven different volumes that, she saijs in the foreword, "trace my own slow movement from agnosticism to Christian faith, a movement incorporati . . .

WHILE INCARCERATED BY the British in the 1920s, Mohandas Gandhi wrote his Autobiography. Having lived, though at a distance, the horrors of World War I, Gandhi seemed to foresee the even worse terrors of World War II and weave those twin self-inflicte . . .