Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Wednesday, September 5, 2007.
* Today in Scripture: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1847, Anglican divine Henry Francis Lyte wrote "Abide with Me" on the evening of his last sermon and Holy Communion at Lower Brixham before going to France.
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WEEKS AHEAD
Full calendar: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_1669_ENG_HTM.htm
Events 9/5/2007 >> NEW YORK CITY: Presiding Bishop to speak at Union's 172nd Convocation
9/7/2007
>> SAN FRANCISCO, California: Grace Cathedral to host sculptures by David Baughan
9/8/2007
>> FORT WASHINGTON, Pennsylvania: Second Saturday Sales >> LAGRANGE, Illinois: An Evening for Sudan
9/9/2007
>> NEW YORK CITY: Desmond Tutu, Sam Waterson join in opening of New Chelsea Conference Center >> WASHINGTON, D.C.: Unity Walk to commemorate 9/11
9/11/2007
>> WASHINGTON, D.C.: Prayer Vigil for Peace in rememberance of 9/11 >> GARDEN CITY, New York: Priests and Deacons Working Together >> NEW YORK CITY: Trinity Wall Street and St. Paul to commemorate sixth anniversary of 9/11
9/14/2007
>> ST. LOUIS, Missouri: Making Disciples Conference
9/21/2007
>> SAN FRANCISCO, California: A Sacred Journey >> EVANSTON, Illinois: Seabury-Western to offer course on reconciliation
9/27/2007 >> LANDER, Wyoming: On Sacred Ground
9/29/2007
>> SYRACUSE, New York: Youth Anti-Racism Summit >> WASHINGTON, D.C.: Cathedral Day
10/4/2007
>> LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas: Central High School 50 year commemeration at Trinity Cathedral
10/6/2007
>> WEST PARK, New York: Prayer Vigil for Peace
10/7/2007
>> BENNINGTON, Vermont: Blessing of the animals >> LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Maryland: A Gathering for Young Adult Clergy
10/12/2007
>> BERKELEY, California: Fourth Annual St. Margaret Lecture >> MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota: Beijing Circles
10/18/2007
>> MEDFORD, Massachusetts: H.H. Richardson Lecture
10/19/2007
>> HARTFORD, Connecticut: Diocese of Connecticut to meet in convention
10/21/2007
>> WASHINGTON, D.C.: State of Virginia to be celebrated at Cathedral
10/22/2007
>> ORLANDO, Florida: Start Up Start Over seminar
10/27/2007 >> LYNN, Massachusetts: MDG workshops
10/29/2007
>> AUGUSTA, Georgia: Cynthia Bourgeault to lead seminar
11/2/2007
>> DES MOINES, Iowa: Diocese of Iowa to meet in convention
Music 9/6/2007 >> WATERBURY, Connecticut: LYRA to perform
9/9/2007 >> BENNINGTON, Vermont: Rap for Wrappers
9/11/2007 >> NEW YORK CITY: Open Music Ensemble >> DENVER, Colorado: Memoriam organ concert
9/14/2007 >> LARAMIE, Wyoming: Chant workshop
9/16/2007
>> LAS VEGAS, Nevada: Choral Eucharist with Sun City Ringers >> NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey: Sunday Vespers Series
9/23/2007 >> NEWARK, Delaware: Be Still and Know >> POUGHKEEPSIE, New York: Organ Recital and Choral Evensong
9/28/2007 >> BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: Mid-day Musical Menu
9/29/2007
>> PAWTUCKET, Rhode Island: Muisc at Park Place
9/30/2007
>> WASHINGTON, D.C.: Festival Worship Service >> BENNINGTON, Vermont: Festival Choral Eucharist
10/3/2007
>> NEW YORK CITY: Early Music Celebration 2007
10/4/2007 >> NEW YORK CITY: Music that Makes Community
10/13/2007
>> MILFORD, Massachusetts: Concerts at the Corner
10/14/2007 >> BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: Choral Evensong
10/19/2007
>> WATERBURY, Connecticut: Festival of Choirs
10/26/2007 >> BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: Mid-day Musical Menu
Full calendar: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_1669_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority" from Harvard University Press, by Richard Arum, 321 pages, hardcover, c. 2003, $39.95
[Source: Harvard University Press] Reprimand a class comic, restrain a bully, dismiss a student for brazen attire -- and you may be facing a lawsuit, costly regardless of the result. This reality for today's teachers and administrators has made the issue of school discipline more difficult than ever before -- and public education thus more precarious. This is the troubling message delivered in Judging School Discipline, a powerfully reasoned account of how decades of mostly well-intended litigation have eroded the moral authority of teachers and principals and degraded the quality of American education.
Judging School Discipline casts a backward glance at the roots of this dilemma to show how a laudable concern for civil liberties forty years ago has resulted in oppressive abnegation of adult responsibility now. In a rigorous analysis enriched by vivid descriptions of individual cases, the book explores 1,200 cases in which a school's right to control students was contested.
Richard Arum and his colleagues also examine several decades of data on schools to show striking and widespread relationships among court leanings, disciplinary practices, and student outcomes; they argue that the threat of lawsuits restrains teachers and administrators from taking control of disorderly and even dangerous situations in ways the public would support.
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