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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... 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 FaithPrestige 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 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... Pages: [<<] ... 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 20-Nov-2009 - 09:53:12
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