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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Re-Learning To Say ‘Please’ And ‘Thank-You’ - Doug McManamanAs Catholic teachers, our attitude must be nothing less than one of grateful thanksgiving. If we are going to have any success in our schools, this is the disposition with which teachers have to learn to enter their classrooms. Read more... Reading the Church Fathers and Doctors - Randall SmithIn Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold famously spoke of the importance of acquainting oneself with “the best that has been thought and said in the world.” Read more... Reflections on Catholic Education at the Millennium - J. FRASER FIELDIf Catholic students are not made aware of the great wealth they have inherited in terms of culture, they may well end up, as the great Catholic historian Christopher Dawson predicted, "divided personalities with a Christian faith and a pagan culture which contradict one another continually." Read more... Reforming Education in Four Easy Steps - WILLIAM J. BENNETT & CHESTER E. FINN JR.Recast these four core terms-public school, teacher, curriculum and standards, and who's in charge locally-and America will get the education reforms it needs. Read more... Religion and Public Schools - Rod PaigeOn February 7, 2003, Secretary Paige issued guidance on constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary and secondary schools. This guidance explains the responsibilities of state educational agencies and local educational agencies with respect to this aspect of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). Read more... Religion in Schools - Charles ColsonWorking together, we can ensure that public schools are safe places for students to express their faith -- just as the U.S. Department of Education has affirmed and our Founding Fathers clearly intended. Read more... Religion in the Classroom - Gregory J. RummoReligion's influence in the world is pervasive. Even atheists will concede this fact. Therefore, a well-rounded education must include religion from the start. "An elementary school curriculum that ignores religion gives students the false message that religion doesn't matter to people — that we live in a religion-free world," write Warren A. Nord and Charles C. Haynes in their 1998 book, “Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum”. Read more... Religious Education Indispensable for Free Society - Rev. Robert J. Spitzer, S.J.How do you view the role of higher education — and of distinctively religious schools, in particular — in a free society? Read more... Religious Schools Less Troubled by Drugs - NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTERAccording to a new study, Catholic and other religious schools have fewer drug-related problems than public schools. Read more... Repentance and renewal in the mission of catechesis - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.The practical unbelief we now face in our societies is, in large measure, the fruit of our own flawed choices in teaching, parenting, religious practice and personal witness. But these choices can be unmade. Read more... Requiem for the Tiger Nuns - Richard & Elizabeth GerbrachtWhen the tiresome complaint arose again recently on a television program about the nuns of yesteryear hitting Catholic schoolchildren on the knuckles with a ruler, we undertook a nostalgic time trip back to the days when we sat in such nuns' classrooms. Read more... Retaking the Universities - Roger KimballThe sea is far from full, but the current still can serve. The tide, ebbing for decades, has begun to flow. It is time to seize the initiative lest we miss the moment and lose our ventures. Read more... Rewriting history - Robert FulfordThe most valuable public work of an intellectual often turns out to be negative, the scraping away of congealed misconceptions that limit our understanding of reality. Read more... Right to Truth, Right to Know: DeSales is Proud of the Mandatum - Tim DrakeWhen it came time for Susan and Joseph Lawruk of Middletown, Pa., to choose a college for their son, James, they considered several Catholic universities. Read more... Rights of Initiation: Home Schoolers and Sacramental Preparation - Leon J. Suprenant, Jr.The home schooling phenomenon is many faceted and evolving, and this article cannot possibly address the range of issues that have arisen in recent years. However, I believe that an overview of the respective rights and duties of parents with respect to sacramental preparation may be helpful in providing principles that can be applied in assessing and constructively resolving the particular conflicts that inevitably will arise. Read more... Robert P. George takes students’ questions - Robert P. GeorgeProfessor George recently took questions from a group of ivy league students about the fun of disrupting campus group-think, challenging the "dogmas of liberalism", the marriage debate, and much more. Read more... Rontrell's Choice - Brendan MiniterWhy a South Carolina teen has to work his way through high school. Read more... Salvation Is the Bottom Line: Catholic School Principal Ed Andrade Tells It - Molly MulqueenEd Andrade is an up-front kind of guy. He is so refreshingly candid about his passions - faith, family, friends, and Catholic education - that there probably have not been many conversations in Ed's life where he needed to be coaxed along with "Come on Ed - tell us how you really feel." Read more... Save the Catholic Schools! - Sol SternWe almost lost Harlem’s Rice High School a few years ago. And what a defeat that would have been for all New Yorkers, Catholic and non-Catholic alike. Read more... Scarlet Blight: Rutgers and Religious Freedom - Charles ColsonInterVarsity Christian Fellowship is a campus ministry whose goal is to establish "witnessing communities of students and faculty who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord" on college campuses. Naturally, you expect these communities’ leaders to be followers of Christ themselves. Read more... Schall's Twenty Books to Keep Sane By - James V. Schall, S.J.There is another version of this list in Another Sort of Learning, where it is twenty-five books. Read more... School Choice and the Common Good of All Children - Kevin SchmiesingThe benefits of school choice are many. Read more... School Choice in the Inner-City - BRET SHUNDLERSadly, the current state of educational enfranchisement depends on your family's income. Read more... School Uniforms: Not Just for Catholics Anymore - DIANE M. HANSONIn many public-school districts, uniform policies are coming to be seen as one small, but significant,"counter-strike against the powerful influence of an increasingly aggressive popular culture. Read more... Schooling at Home - Sally ThomasOne morning, as the four children and I prepared to start the school day, I consulted the saints’ dictionary, as I habitually do, to see whose feast it might be. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 [>>] Further your education with an online MBA degree from an accredited college. Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Sat Apr 27 2013 - 00:34:48
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