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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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 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... 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... 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... Cardinal Dulles to Catholic Colleges: Be Truly Catholic - Kathryn Jean LopezCardinal Avery Dulles, S.J., spoke recently about Catholic colleges and universities calling them to stop being on the defensive about their Catholicity. “The time has come for them to regain their confidence and proudly proclaim the faith that animates them,” he said. Read more... Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies - Stefan McDaniel"Like any other life-sustaining resource," says Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, "language can be depleted, polluted, contaminated, eroded, and filled with artificial stimulants." Today more than ever, language needs to be rescued and restored. Read more... Catechesis in the Process of Evangelization - Bishop Raymond L. BurkeThe General Directory sets forth the principles which are the foundation for the sound teaching of the faith. Only if these principles are understood and applied will the Church meet the challenge of catechesis in our time and overcome the significant difficulties which have been encountered in catechesis over the past decades. Read more... Catholic Schools Achieve High Marks at Low Costs - Hanna Skandera and Richard SousaHistorically, Catholic schools have played a significant role in educating America's children. They continue to be important and effective players in the field today, despite substantial changes in the size and makeup of the Catholic school student body over the last four decades. Read more... Catholic schools: Partners in faith with parents - Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.Denver news media have reported in recent days on the case of two children of a lesbian couple in Boulder. The couple was informed by Sacred Heart of Jesus parish school that the older child, whom they were enrolling in kindergarten for next year, would be allowed to attend kindergarten but would not be able to continue into first grade the year after. Read more... Catholic Schools: Where Faith and Learning Meet - Mary Zurolo"It’s a very, very prestigious honor to receive the Blue Ribbon award," says Marilyn Valatka, principal of St. Timothy School in Chantilly, Va. "Five percent of schools in the United States are Catholic schools. Twelve percent of the total number of schools in the U.S. that received the Blue Ribbon award this year were Catholic schools. That’s pretty good." Read more... Challenging America's me-first culture - Colleen Carroll CampbellWhen the Los Angeles-based Josephson Institute of Ethics recently released its 2008 Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth, the results were not pretty. Read more... Changing our minds - Norman DoidgeWe have been using the wrong model for thinking about the brain. 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. Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Sat Feb 04 2012 - 16:09:38
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