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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Are Vouchers Good for Catholic Education? - Faith and Reason InstituteOn May 19, 2000, the Faith & Reason Institute sponsored a debate and discussion in the U.S. Capitol Building on the potential benefits and dangers of government vouchers for Catholic schools. The presenters were House Majority Leader Dick Armey, Father William F. Davis of the U.S. Catholic Conference, Michael Hartmann of Milwaukee’s Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Brother Bob Smith of Messmer High School, and Douglas Dewey of the Children’s Scholarship Fund. A slightly edited version of their remarks appears below. Read more... Are We Living in a Moral Stone Age? - Christina Hoff SommersToday's young people are suffering from "cognitive moral confusion." They not only have trouble distinguishing right from wrong — they question whether such standards even exist. The threat this moral relativism poses to society is greater than any external danger. Read more... Ave Maria founder Tom Monaghan is a man of faith, plans and action - Marci ElliottAll he wanted to do was work hard to make something of himself. And someday, maybe, to provide for a wife and family. And be an architect. Read more... Aztecs vs. Greeks - Charles MurrayThose with superior intelligence need to learn to be wise. Read more... Back to History: Returning Students Have New Textbook - Tim DrakeWhen students return to school this year, some will have a new resource that has not been available for more than 35 years - a modern, full-color, authentically Catholic history textbook. Read more... Back to History: Returning Students Have New Textbook - Tim DrakeWhen students return to school this year, some will have a new resource that has not been available for more than 35 years — a modern, full-color, authentically Catholic history textbook. Read more... Back to School on Catholic Social Teaching - Clint W. GreenIn towns across America, students returned to school last week. Many returned to government schools, others to charter or private schools, and some 2.4 million entered the halls of Catholic schools. Read more... Back to School, Back to Parents - Anthony B. BradleyAs this school year kicks off, we do well to remember what really produces successful students: quality time spent with parents. Read more... Battling the Progressives - Diane RavitchThis is the first time that I feel compelled to acknowledge from the get-go that I am a frank partisan of the ideas in a book I am reviewing. Read more... Be a Man who Stays Focused on the Final Goal - Father Larry RichardsMen are rediscovering the importance of the spiritual life. And Father Larry Richards is helping them do it. Read more... Be Not Afraid - Colleen Carroll CampbellWhen the students, faculty, and staff of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., elected Ben Kessler as “Tommie of the Year” and student speaker for this year’s commencement, they got more than they bargained for. Read more... before i go - Peter KreeftMy unutterably dear children (and grandchildren), I give you this book about the most valuable life lessons I have learned because I want to give you everything I can, and writing books is something I can do. Read more... Benedictine College Embraces Mandatum - Tim DrakeArchbishop James Patrick Keleher had a problem that's good to have. He didn't need to invite Benedictine College's theology faculty to apply for the mandatum — they all came to him. Read more... Bless U. - Susan KinzieA couple of guys yelled, "Padre!" when they saw the Rev. Robert Schlageter barreling into the dorm in his black friar's robes cinched with rope. "You getting your rooms blessed, you little pagans?" he hollered back. Read more... Boys' brains are from Mars - Anne Marie Owens"Girls and boys are as different from the neck up as they are from the neck down," JoAnn Deak says at the outset of her talk, which is called Taking the Mean Out of Teen. "I've come to believe that the brain is the most genderized part of the body." Read more... Breaking Open the Word of God - Vancouver Synod Study Commission on Teaching the FaithBreaking the Public School's Monopoly - WILLIAM BENTLEY BALLSeventy years ago, in Meyer v. Nebraska, the Supreme Court warned against the tendency, now vividly seen in public education... Read more... Bringing soft totalitarianism into the classroom - Father Raymond J. de SouzaWho decides what children get taught when it comes to moral and religious questions? Parents or the state? Read more... Brothers, Sing On - Anthony EsolenI've long insisted that the sexual revolution has corrupted both sexes, but in different ways, and that no effective opposition can be mounted unless men rediscover themselves as men. Read more... Building Catholic Character: 5 Things Parents Can Do - Thomas LickonaWhat is "Catholic character," why does it matter, and what can we do as parents to develop it in our children? Read more... Bullying handout - The ABCs of Bullying: Addressing, Blocking, and Curbing School Aggression - Center for Substance Abuse PreventionA handout: What parents can do, For the Child Being Bullied, and For the Child Who Bullies. Read more... Bullying Prevention Resource List - Catherine Smith, MLSCan Catholic Schools Be Saved? - Peter MeyerBobby and I stood outside the small public elementary school that our children attended, pondering our respective 1st graders’ prospects. Read more... Can Catholic schools be saved? - Andy SmarickOver the past several decades, in urban centers across the country, thousands of schools have been shuttered – a trend with implications for more than just the nation's Catholics. Read more... CAPP – A Christian Alternative for B.C. Students - Sean MurphyThe Career and Personal Planning (CAPP) programme is mandatory for graduation in British Columbia yet aspects of the program are inconsistent with what many consider a mature Christian view. It is hoped that this alternative to the curriculum presently offered in the schools will be of assistance to parents and Christian educators who find themselves faced with the dilemma of needing to fulfill the CAPP learning objectives, but not being willing to compromise their deeply held Christian principles. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Further your education with an online MBA degree from an accredited college. 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