Are America's schools broken? Education Hell: Rhetoric vs. Reality seeks to address misconceptions about America's schools by taking on the credo 'what can be measured matters.' To the contrary, Dr. Bracey makes a persuasive case that much of what matters cannot be assessed on a multiple choice test. The challenge for educators is to deal effectively with an incomplete accountability system-while creating a broader understanding of successful schools and teachers. School leaders must work to define, maintain, and increase essential skills that may not be measured in today's accountability plans.

You Can Thrive in God's Supernatural Economy Joseph Z and Rick Renner sat down to discuss God’s plan to use the Church and obedient believers to break hell’s economy in these last days. Hell’s economy is represented in every world system where the dark god of this world has ruled, but God wants to use the Church — and He wants to use YOU — to break the devil’s grip on the world’s systems that are around you. In this captivating five-part series with Joseph Z and Rick Renner, you’ll learn: What exactly is hell’s economy that needs to be broken. How to identify the areas where the dark god of this world is exercising his rule. How God wants to use the Church — and YOU — to be a wrecking ball to destroy the devil’s works. This teaching is truly an eye-opening revelation of where the devil is working in the world around us and what we, as believers, need to do to tear down his demonic influence in areas of life that we see and experience every day. Lay hold of this revelation, defy hell, and live your life knowing you are destined to thrive in these last days!

'What the Hell Happened to America' is a critical analysis of what Obama has done to our economy, our job market, and most of all, what he has done to America. This book takes you through all the presidents and evaluates positions on God and our Constitution. It also develops the characters of our leaders showing their dreams and their hopes for this great country. If you want to know what our founders believed and what our Presidents stood for, then this is the book for you.

Students of the new millennium meet a tough adversary when they go up against Mrs. Priscilla Bird, a veteran teacher practicing her craft in northern Alberta, Canada. She struggles with parents, students, and administrators during a time when self-entitlement rules. Mrs. Bird helps and confronts students with all types of problems. There is Greg, whose loyalty to his father is getting in the way of overcoming an addiction to drugs. Mary and Frank endure daily abuse at the hands of their peers, and their lives may even be in danger. Others at the school also are doing their best to help students navigate their way through a tough and confusing world. Mr. Lloyd, a counselor, is troubled that he cant seem to help Greg, but he somehow manages to keep other students in school who would otherwise slip through the cracks. Take a close, comical, and realistic look at a Catholic school system and discover why dedicated people at a revered institution dont always have all the answers in Hell Hounds of High School.

The notion of an infernal place of punishment for 'undesired' elements in human culture and human nature has a long history both as religious idea and as cultural metaphor. This book brings together a wide array of scholars who examine hell as an idea within the Christian tradition and its 'afterlife' in historical and contemporary imagination. Leading scholars grapple with the construction and meaning of hell in the past and investigate its modern utility as a means to describe what is perceived as horrific or undesirable in modern culture. While the idea of an infernal region of punishment was largely developed in the context of early Jewish and Christian religious culture, it remains a central belief for some Christians in the modern world. Hell's reception (its 'afterlife') in the modern world has extended hell's meaning beyond the religious realm; hell has become a pervasive image and metaphor in political rhetoric, in popular culture, and in the media. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields to contribute to a wider understanding of this fascinating and important cultural idea, this book will appeal to readers from historical, religious, literary and cultural perspectives.