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Home: Core Subjects: Catholic Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Catholic Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Opening a window on closed campus minds - Barbara KayA new documentary shows how repressive university political correctness has become. Email This Article Our Listless Universities - Allan BloomToday a young person does not generally go off to the university with the expectation of having an intellectual adventure, of discovering strange new worlds, of finding out what the comprehensive truth about man is. Instead, the primary concern of our best universities is to indoctrinate social attitudes, to ‘socialize,’ rather than to educate. The result is true philistinism, a withering of taste and a conformity to what is prevalent in the present. …It means the young have no heroes, no objects of aspiration. It is all both relaxing and boring, a soft imprisonment. Email This Article Outcome-Based Education - WILLIAM J. BENNETTSome of the confusion surrounding outcome-based education is based on semantics. Email This Article Parent-Free Zone - JOHN LEO"Anticulturalism" is the dominant ideology among child development experts, and it has filtered into the courts, into the schools, into our kitchens and family rooms. Email This Article Parental Informed Consent Notice - B. K. EakmanThe following letter is a useful template for parents wanting assurance that their child’s school will provide written notification whenever physical, mental health, or social services/counseling is administered to their child. Email This Article Performance and Moral Character: A Blueprint for Developing Character in Competitive Contexts - Matthew L. Davidson, Kelli Moran-Miller, and Jeffrey Pratt BeedyWhat follows is meant to be a theoretical blueprint for developing character in performance environments. As a blueprint, it attempts to provide broad theoretical plans for constructing a sport experience that consistently develops good character. Email This Article Perspectives on the Terrorist Attacks of Sep. 11 - Virtue in ActionRemember the suffering. Honor the heroism. How does 9/11 speak to us today Email This Article Philistines at the Gate - Lee HarrisIn a recent meeting of the Board of Education in the city of Artichoke, Alabama, it was decided to ban the reading of Homer's Illiad and Odyssey in the classroom. The grounds given for the exclusion of these towering masterpieces of ancient literature is that reading them in a public school violated the first amendment's guarantee of the separation of church and state. Email This Article Preface and Introduction to All Ye Lands - Michael J. Van Hecke & James HitchcockThe Catholic Schools Textbook Project restores what has been lost in the secular texts and offers beautiful illustrations to accompany the story. We extend to teachers and students the first distinctively Catholic history textbooks since the 1960s. Email This Article Principles of Public Education in a Pluralistic Society - Iain BensonPublic education itself is threatened when the foundational principles upon which it is based are ignored. Email This Article Pages: [<<] ... 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 14-Mar-2008 - 01:22:06
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