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Home: Core Subjects: Catholic Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Catholic Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Catholic Church and the Creation of the University - Thomas E. Woods, Jr.The Church played a central if not exclusive role in the establishment and encouragement of the university. Email This Article The Challenge Of Secularism - Christopher DawsonIt is no accident that the introduction of universal compulsory state education has coincided in time and place with the secularization of modern culture. Email This Article The Challenge of Secularism - Christopher DawsonWe are still living internally on the capital of the past and externally on the existence of a vague atmosphere of religious tolerance which has already lost its justification in contemporary secular ideology. It is a precarious situation, which cannot be expected to endure indefinitely and we ought to make the most of it while it lasts. Email This Article The Classics are not the Canon - ROGER LUNDINIn an age such as ours, when cynicism and suspicion can make it difficult for us to take seriously anything that fails to meet our own standards or to gratify our desires, the great classics of literature have a unique power to speak to us of our potential and our peril. Email This Article The Computer Delusion - TODD OPPENHEIMERIn this Atlantic Monthly article the author argues that there is no good evidence that most uses of computers significantly improve teaching and learning, yet school districts are cutting programs-music, art, physical education-that enrich children's lives to make room for this dubious nostrum. Lets think through the matter of computers in the classroom clearly before rushing to embrace them at such great cost. Email This Article The Dewey Legend In American Education - FR. JOHN A. HARDON, S.J.Towering above all other names in the field of educational philosophy is that of John Dewey. Email This Article The Education of Minority Children - Thomas SowellWill Rogers once said that it was not ignorance that was so bad but, as he put it, "all the things we know that ain't so." Nowhere is that more true than in American education today, where fashions prevail and evidence is seldom asked or given. Email This Article The Enemy Inside the Gates: The Surrender of Catholic Higher Education - Patrick J. ReillyThe Cardinal Newman Society recently commissioned a study on the fidelity of Catholic Colleges in America. The society's president, Patrick Reilly, says that what they uncovered isn't good. Email This Article The Gentleman’s “A” - David N. Figlio & Maurice E. LucasNew evidence that tough-grading teachers elicit better student performance. Email This Article The Gift of Fear - Douglas McManamanTo sweeten the harder points of the Gospel might appear more positive and inviting, but such theology is dangerous and negligent. Email This Article Pages: [<<] ... 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 14-Mar-2008 - 01:22:07
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