Robert F. Davis

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  • Our World Has Become More and More Spiritually Confused

    Our World Has Become More and More Spiritually Confused

    No manner of skimping or quick start shortcuts can be used to replace solid planning. Time is needed to do it right!

  • Recruiting Students Isn't Brain Surgery

    Recruiting Students Isn't Brain Surgery

    As I look around and see Christian schools with enrollment declines of 10 and 20 percent, or recruiting students overseas and gouging their tuition, or the ultimate failure closing their doors, I am saddened! At a time when a Christian education is most important, administrations and boards are dropping the ball. What's the problem?

  • Leaders Without a Plan Are Like Alice in Wonderland

    Leaders Without a Plan Are Like Alice in Wonderland

    Leaders without a plan leads to "gaping holes" in educational or institutional development or progress. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice asks the Cheshire Cat, "Can you tell me how to get where I am going?" When she says she doesn't know where she wants to go, the Cat retorts, "Then it really doesn't matter in what direction you travel!"

  • Making Christian Education Great Again

    Making Christian Education Great Again

    Christian schools can and have lost their salvation. And while many still maintain a "vibrant" faith too many have stepped on the "slippery slope" toward faithlessness and still others have already "bottomed out."

  • How Much Should Teachers Make at Christian Schools?

    How Much Should Teachers Make at Christian Schools?

    Both my wife and I have worked at Christian schools and colleges at all levels of employment, so we can relate first hand to the subject of compensation with real-life experience. We can also relate to the physical, psychological, and emotional conditions which accompany a Christian school compensation package.

  • Can Christian Schools Lose Their Salvation?

    Can Christian Schools Lose Their Salvation?

    What had taken place at this university? It appears that nothing any different from that which had transformed most of the other universities established in early America by Christians, that is to say at: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, William & Mary, Rutgers, Brown, and Penn.

  • What Exactly Are Christian Schools Selling (or Marketing)?

    What Exactly Are Christian Schools Selling (or Marketing)?

    So, what are Christian schools doing, marketing or selling? For the most part they are doing "little to nothing." But, those that are provide the opportunity for an interesting study.

  • Christian Schools: One Way to Bring Order Out of Chaos

    Christian Schools: One Way to Bring Order Out of Chaos

    It often ends up in a dark desk drawer or a filing tray gathering dust. Rarely is the institutional organizational chart in a place for frequent reference.

  • Should Parents Consider 'Value' When Picking a Christian School?

    Should Parents Consider 'Value' When Picking a Christian School?

    Who doesn't want to get more for their money? Who doesn't want more "bang for their buck?" Who isn't interested in value in what they purchase? I'll bet you'd have to question a lot of people to find one who says, "I don't mind paying more and getting less."

  • Christian Schools and School Choice: 4 Considerations

    Christian Schools and School Choice: 4 Considerations

    There are two things I can remember from 20 to 25 years ago, about school choice, which appears to be more important now than then.