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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The New Counterculture - Margaret TalbotThe rapid growth of the home-schooling movement owes much to the energy and organizational skills of its Christian advocates. Read more... The New Curriculum: Reading, Writing, and Self-esteem - J. Fraser FieldOne of the most dominant articles of faith pervading the modern curriculum is the notion that children can't achieve and won’t succeed unless they have high self-esteem. Read more... The other Crisis in American Education - DANIEL J. SINGALA college professor looks at the forgotten victims of our mediocre public educational system-the potentially high achievers whose SAT scores have fallen, and who read less, understand less of what they read, and know less than the top students of a generation ago. Read more... The Other Deficit - Cal ThomasWhile Congress spends -- and plans to spend -- like the proverbial drunken sailor to "bailout" various industries for practices that are largely their fault and the fault of those in Congress who were supposed to provide oversight, another deficit looms which is at least as troubling as the economic one. Read more... The Papacy: The Ministry of St. Peter in the New Testament (2 of 3) - Robert StackpoleStudents will understand that St. Peter was given a special pastoral ministry by Jesus Christ: that of “Rock” and “Shepherd” of the early Church. Read more... The Papacy: The Petrine Ministry in the Early Church (3 of 3) - Robert StackpoleStudents will understand that after Jesus created a special Petrine ministry to lead and unify His Church (demonstrated in lesson two) He then used that ministry to secure the unity-in-truth of the early Christian Church, through its many struggles and difficulties. Read more... The Parent Trap - John LeoDavid and Tonia Parker of Lexington, Mass., saw a red flag when their son came home from kindergarten last January with a "diversity book bag" that included Who's in a Family, a book promoting acceptance of gay marriage. Read more... The Pitfalls of Sex Education - Toni CollinsWe faced a lot of unforeseen issues when we decided that the best choice for our third child was public high school. Read more... The Pleasures of Perfidy - Theodore DalrympleIt is curious to think that in 1943, while people were being gassed at one end of Europe, other people were fretting about how to address a letter correctly to a Dowager Duchess. Read more... The pope and the universities - George WeigelPope Benedict XVI had barely left the Catholic University of America on April 17 when the Catholic higher education establishment's spin machine shifted into high gear. Read more... The Privilege and Eminence of Teaching - Doug McManamanBecause teaching is holy, the identity of the teacher can best be understood in the context of the threefold division of Christ's identity, namely that of priest, prophet and king; for the revelation of this threefold identity is the revelation of our identity, that is, the revelation of the fundamental truth about humanity. Read more... The Religious Aim of Education - G.K. ChestertonIt is only by a definite and even deliberate narrowing of the mind that we can keep religion out of education. Read more... The Renaissance of Faith and Reason - ROBERT P. GEORGEIn the year that has passed since Pope John Paul II released his encyclical Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason), theologians, philosophers, scientists, and other scholars have pondered its meaning and significance. Read more... The Roots of the Education Wars - E. D. Hirsch Jr.My subject is going to be a very general one — the intellectual roots of the education wars. I am going to present one intellectual historian's take on those origins, and proffer an explanation of the remarkable durability of Romantic educational ideas even in the face of practical failures. Read more... The Scream! - Diane RavitchThere is no social science evidence that children need to be frightened by the books they read. Read more... The Secret to Looking Beautiful - Douglas McManamanThe purpose of human life is not "feeling good", but being good, and as a leading philosopher recently wrote, "the beautiful is the way the good manifests itself to the rational creature." A person of good moral character will be experienced by others as a beautiful person, as a very attractive person. We become beautiful by choosing the good (kalon). Read more... The Study of Western Culture - CHRISTOPHER DAWSONOne of the chief defects of modern education has been its failure to find an adequate method for the study of our own civilization. Read more... The Task of Evangelization in Secular America - MOST REV. CHARLES CHAPUTCatholic education cannot be done by the disaffected or lukewarm. Read more... The Teachers' Unions - CHARLENE HAARFrom the school house to the White House, the teachers' unions are the most formidable foes of meaningful education reforms... Read more... The Traditional High School - Jeffrey MirelFor more than a century, American educators and education policymakers have chosen sides in a great debate about the nature and function of American high schools. Read more... The Truth about Education - G.K. ChestertonThe fashionable fallacy is that by education we can give people something that we have not got. Read more... The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality - Pontifical Council for the FamilyThe Twilight of Atheism: The Global Triumph of Christianity - Dinesh D'SouzaGod has come back to life. The world is witnessing a huge explosion of religious conversion and growth, and Christianity is growing faster than any other religion. Nietzsche’s proclamation “God is dead” is now proven false. Nietzsche is dead. Read more... The tyranny of therapism - Christina Hoff Sommers & Sally SatelToday — with a book for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, a lawsuit for every grievance, and a TV show for every conceivable problem — we are at risk of degrading our native ability to cope with life's challenges. Read more... The Untouchables - Antoni CimolinoWhy it's blasphemous to alter Shakespeare's words for a modern audience. 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: Sat Feb 04 2012 - 16:09:39
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