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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Coach’s Character Development Self-Evaluation Checklist - Matthew L. Davidson, Kelli Moran-Miller, and Jeffrey Pratt BeedyThis checklist is designed to provide information on coaches’ approach to character development. It is designed to collect important information that can help guide future discussions about character development in sports. Read more... College: Where free speech is devalued - Bruce ThorntonAs the Athenian playwright Sophocles once wrote, "Free men have free tongues." Read more... Collegiate Sex-Ed - Ryan T. AndersonEvery fall, kids arrive on college campuses and learn that their basic moral intuitions on sexual matters don’t square with the reigning ideas. Thanks to debased campus culture and overreaching on the part of administrators and professors, students are beginning to respond systematically -- and they’re having an impact. Here's how. Read more... Coming Clean: The Real Truth About Men's and Women's Brains - James BowmanIn the school where I once taught, they used to tell the story of the smart-alecky boy in chemistry class who, upon being given meticulous instructions as to the day’s classwork, put his hand up and asked: "Please, sir, why do we need to do this experiment? You already know how it comes out, and we don’t care." Read more... Commencement Speech to Providence Academy High School - Jennifer Roback MorseFaculty and Students of Providence Academy; Class of 2011; parents, friends and benefactors: this is a wonderful and memorable day. Read more... Commentary on the General Directory for Catechesis - RAYMOND L. BURKE, D.D., J.C.D.On August 11, 1997, Pope John Paul II approved for publication the General Directory for Catechesis as the norm and instrument for the church in fulfilling her fundamental responsibility of teaching the faith. Read more... Common-Sense Schooling - Frederick M. HessAmidst the politicized debates over the No Child Left Behind Act's provisions on testing, sanctions, spending and teacher quality, it is easy for voters and policymakers to lose sight of the essential question: How do we build systems of schools that foster excellence? Read more... Competition passes the test - Jay P. Greene & Marcus A. WintersStill more evidence that public schools improve when threatened with the loss of students and money. Read more... Confronting the Hook-Up Culture - Robert George and John LondreganA new approach is needed to support students in the hostile hook-up culture on college campuses. Read more... Contemplata Tradere: On Its Being Better to Illuminate Than Merely To Shine - James V. Schall, S.J.Certain questions, good questions, never seem to be asked any more. Read more... Courage - Donald DeMarcoThe various virtues — courage, compassion, generosity, and so on — still ring well in the secular ear. But the secular world’s interest in the meaning behind these positive sounding words is minimal. Read more... Course's gay 'plunges' earn school a PC award - ANDREA BILLUPSFor their efforts at training new teachers, San Diego State has been named the top winner of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's Polly Awards, handed out each year for outrageous examples of political correctness on college campuses. Read more... Creativity begins with discipline - Robert FulfordEducation, as education bureaucrats will tell you, is the road to the future. Read more... Curbing Bad Language - Thomas Lickona & Matthew DavidsonHow can we teach students to be more reflective and respectful in their use of language? Read more... Cynicism, Justice, and the Teaching Profession - Doug McManamanCynicism has become more widespread over the years. The causes of this encroaching cynicism among Catholic teachers in particular are complex and cannot easily be reduced to a single one. Read more... Declaration on the Authority of Parents and Guardians in the Education of their Children - Catholic Civil Rights LeagueThe Declaration on the Authority of Parents and Guardians in the Education of their Children is a statement drafted by the Catholic Civil Rights League (Canada) and offered to all people of good will who accept the principles it affirms. It does not depend upon particular religious beliefs. Read more... Diversity, Dignity, and My Daughter - AnonymousWhen I pulled my minivan up to the curb of the school sidewalk, my daughter, instead of saying the customary prolonged goodbye to her 4th-grade classmates while I look on rather impatiently, approached the van door without the slightest hesitation, waving a bright yellow paper. Read more... Do We Need the Department of Education? - Charles MurrayThe case for the Department of Education could rest on one or more of three legs: its constitutional appropriateness, the existence of serious problems in education that could be solved only at the federal level, and/or its track record since it came into being. Let us consider these in order. Read more... Does Sex Ed Undermine Parental Rights? - Robert P. George & Melissa MoschellaImagine you have a 10- or 11-year-old child, just entering a public middle school. How would you feel if, as part of a class ostensibly about the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, he and his classmates were given "risk cards" that graphically named a variety of solitary and mutual sex acts? Read more... Doing the Lord's work in hospitals and schools - Deacon Douglas McManamanIt was from observing good nurses – kind and cheerful nurses – that I learned what being a teacher of high school kids is fundamentally about. Read more... Don't Follow Your Dream - Harrison SolowEverywhere you turn today, our children are urged to "follow your dream." Read more... Don’t Know Much About Liturgy, Don’t Know Much Theology - Marian E. CroweAlmost every year since 1989, I have been teaching the Arts and Letters Core Course at the University of Notre Dame, an introduction to the liberal arts curriculum that is required of all undergraduates in the College of Arts and Letters. What I have discovered suggests something pretty surprising: Although 85 percent of Notre Dame undergraduates identify themselves as Catholics, very few of them either know much about or understand even the most basic Catholic teachings. Read more... Dorm Brothel - Vigen GuroianNineteen sixty-six, the year in which Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman was published, is also the year I entered as a first-yearman at the University of Virginia. We did not stoop to the State U level of referring to ourselves as freshmen, sophomores, and such — not at "The University." We were all men at U.Va. — "gentlemen," we were told. Read more... Down but Not Out in Catholic Suburbia - William McGurnTim Busch has an answer to the epidemic of closing Catholic schools. And it has nothing to do with vouchers. Read more... Drug Education - William KilpatrickLike so many other drug education programs, Quest is a feelings-based program operating on the dubious assumption that morality is a by-product of "feeling good about yourself." Critics of the feelings based therapeutic approach claim that while it may be useful in therapy, it has no place in drug education. 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 Apr 27 2013 - 00:34:47
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