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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Perspectives on the Terrorist Attacks of Sep. 11 - Virtue in ActionRemember the suffering. Honor the heroism. How does 9/11 speak to us today Read more... 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. Read more... Playing Fair, Even When Umpires Are Blind - Eric FeltenSometimes ethics means not having to go to the videotape. Read more... PPower2LearnTM & Power2TeachTM: - Matthew DavidsonTwenty-five high schools in four states -- Iowa, Kansas, New Jersey, and New York -- have begun initial field-test implementation of the first two programs in our series of Power2Programming. Read more... Practice Character-Based Discipline - Thomas LickonaTo discipline is to teach. Properly understood, discipline is not crowd control but character education, with self-discipline as its ultimate aim. No aspect of character education is more basic to creating a school of character. Read more... Praying with Children - Kathy CoffeyWhen we love a child, we want to pass on what’s most precious. So how do we teach children to pray? Read more... 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. Read more... Preface: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization - Anthony EsolenFor those of us who love the West, we are in a daunting battle. The other side has the mainstream media, the Ivy League, the political classes, and a lot more money. Thankfully, on our side, we've got thousands of years of history and some pretty big guns -- with names like Aristotle, Augustine, Burke, and Eliot. Read more... Presenting Catholic History and Culture - Vancouver Synod Study Commission on Teaching the FaithPresenting what is beautiful: The joyful duty of Catholic Education - Andrew SeeleyCatholic schools have a joyful duty to present what is beautiful to their students. Read more... Prestige over Truth - Father Raymond J. de SouzaLast Sunday President Barack Obama was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws at the University of Notre Dame, America’s most famous Catholic university. Read more... Prevent Bullying, Promote Kindness: 20 Things All Schools Can Do - Thomas LickonaTaken together, these strategies can make schools what they ought to be: ethical learning communities where respect and kindness are the norm — and where every student is able to learn in a safe and supportive environment. Read more... Prevent Peer Cruelty and Promote Kindness - Thomas LickonaSchools have no higher moral obligation to students and their parents than to do everything in their power to prevent peer cruelty and create a culture of kindness and respect. Read more... 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. Read more... Private Schools for the Poor - James TooleyThe accepted wisdom is that private schools serve the privileged; everyone else, especially the poor, requires public school. Read more... Privatize American Education - Jon E. DoughertyI admire President George W. Bush’s intentions to “reform” the public school system in America, but these efforts are largely going to be directed by or defined by the federal government, and, after decades of so-called federally-managed education, it is clear that Uncle Sam has screwed this up royally. Read more... Program puts home and school at odds - J. Fraser FieldTo make mandatory in the schools a program whose catechism is diametrically opposed to the understanding of most traditionally religious people, let alone most parents, is an outrageous challenge to the rights of the citizens and means that what many parents are teaching their children at home is being directly contradicted and undermined by what is going on in the classroom. Read more... Proudly Pro-Choice on Education - Mary Anastasia O'GradyNew York's archbishop on schools and the challenges facing the Catholic Church. Read more... Provide a school of virtues - Vancouver Synod Study Commission on Teaching the FaithQuebec’s totalitarian impulse - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThe Ministry of Education essentially ordered a Catholic school to teach things it believed to be false. Read more... Queering education - Robert R. ReillyWhat will happen in the classroom if same-sex marriage is legalised? Massachusetts offers a vision of the future. Read more... Queering the Schools - Marjorie KingAt a high school in prosperous Newton, Massachusetts, it’s “To B GLAD Day” — or, less delicately, Transgender, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian Awareness Day. An advocacy session for students and teachers features three self-styled transgendered individuals — a member of the senior class and two recent graduates. Read more... Raise Children of Character - Thomas LickonaWhen we do not set high standards, we abandon our children to their own immature desires and the pressures of the peer group and culture. Read more... Raising the Bar: How Parents Can Fix Education - Daniel AkstEveryone, it seems, has a complaint about the schools. Indifferent bureaucracy, change-averse unions, faddish curricula, soaring school taxes matched with mediocre student performance -- the list is long and seemingly unchanging. Read more... Ralph McInerny and the tragedy of Notre Dame - George WeigelRalph McInerny was arguably the most distinguished scholar ever to work at Notre Dame. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ... [>>] Further your education with an online MBA degree from an accredited college. Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Tue Jun 18 2013 - 16:55:39
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