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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Sexed-Up Sex-Ed - Christian C. SahnerCollege freshmen are now on campus or soon will be. If my experience arriving at Princeton University four years ago is any guide, the days ahead could be more than a little awkward for them. Read more... Smart & Good Schools High Schools - Center for the 4th and 5th RsSmart & Good High Schools is a national study of American high schools. The report offers a vision of educational excellence and nearly 100 promising practices designed to foster human flourishing over a lifetime. Read more... Smart and Good Schools: A Paradigm Shift for Character Education - Matthew Davidson, Thomas Lickona, & Vladimir KhmelkovThroughout history and in cultures around the world, education rightly conceived has had two great goals: helping students become smart and helping them become good. They need character for both. Read more... Some First Principles of Catholic Education - Gerard T. CampbellThe purpose of this paper is to outline some of the perennial and invariable principles of Catholic education in the hope that they will be of benefit to those who are entrusted with the responsibility of relating them to the contemporary situation. Read more... Spineless and rude - Lorne GunterTalk about intellectual cowardice and appalling bad manners. Today, Ryerson University will award an honorary science doctorate to Margaret Somerville, one of Canada’s most renowned and respected academics. Read more... Students Speak Up In Jefferson City for Working Poor - The Catholic KeyThe sixth grade class of St. Patrick School in Kansas City, north, meant business when they came to press lawmakers to pass Senate Bill 575, a measure that if passed will provide the first state earned income tax credit to working poor families. Read more... Study: Private Voucher Students Outperform Peers - CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICEA Harvard University study released Monday finds that African-Americans who receive private educational vouchers perform better in elementary school than their public school counterparts. Read more... Suffering and Joy: Bringing a Joyful Spirit into the Classroom - Douglas McManamanWhat do I want to say to teachers? I want to say, and hopefully show, that what teachers do daily in the classrooms, in the halls, in offices and while supervising Cafeterias, what they do daily has a holiness and a dignity that many of them are almost entirely unaware of. There is a holiness and a dignity to be discovered. Read more... Supreme Court Supplants Parents - Daniel CereWith this month's ruling, the judges of the Supreme Court of Canada placed themselves between parents and their children and sided with those pressing for the inclusion of gay-parenting literature. The decision clearly signaled that the role of parents as primary moral guides for their children's education is now "subject to judicial review" by our nine lords of the law. Read more... Take back the class, one row at a time - Carol MilstoneA report prepared by the Ontario Coalition for Educational Reform, for which Mrs. Morrison served on the steering committee, calls for the return to things such as desks in rows, classroom discipline (but not corporal punishment) and standardized testing. In short, says the coalition, dispense with today’s child-centred approach to education, and allow the teacher to regain control of the classroom. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 19-Aug-2008 - 00:05:41
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