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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... 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... E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy - Sol SternA content-rich pedagogy makes better citizens and smarter kids. Read more... Educate the Educators; Catechize the Catechists - Vancouver Synod Study Commission on Teaching the FaithEducating in the Jesuit Tradition - Robert Spitzer, S.J.Frequently our students come into the university domain thinking that all opinions are equally valid. This view has threatened the intellectual development of students since the time of Socrates because it allows students to think that incomplete, illogical, and nonsystematic thought is “good enough.” Unfortunately, it never is. Read more... Educating in Virtue - JAMES STENSONChildren growing up today are headed toward some formidable challenges. Read more... Education after the culture wars - Diane RavitchDiane Ravitch's blockbuster expose and best selling book, “The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn”, originated with this essay for the Summer 2002 issue of Dædalus. Read more... Education and the Individual - Richard M. WeaverThe greatest school that ever existed, it has been said, consisted of Socrates standing on a street corner with one or two interlocutors. If this remark strikes the average American as merely a bit of fancy, that is because education here today suffers from an unprecedented amount of aimlessness and confusion. Read more... Education language: a lesson in confusion - Julie Smyth‘Edspeak’ baffles parents. One example, “Engage in the process of reflection” — translation: think. Jeffrey Mirel, education historian at the University of Michigan’s education faculty, says Edspeak is a language that, similar to the code among doctors or lawyers, is meant to be exclusive. Read more... Education reform - David WarrenI am luckier than most North Americans, having benefited at formative moments in my childhood from attending backward private schools. Read more... Encyclicals aren't just for Theologians - Karna SwansonHigh school seniors are being challenged with Caritas in Veritate. Read more... Enough Already with Kid Gloves - Christina Hoff SommersPurple is replacing red as the color of choice for teachers. Why, you may ask? It seems that educators worry that emphatic red corrections on a homework assignment or test can be stressful, demeaning — even "frightening" for a young person. Read more... Even atheists should read the Bible - Reverend William IngramRecently, I was asked to speak at a local mother’s group. I am a minister, but as it was not a church-based gathering, the organizers had asked me to address the topic of the spiritual life of kids in as “non-religious” a manner as possible. Read more... Everyday Graces: A Child's Book of Good Manners - Karen SantorumKaren Santorum writes that this anthology "grew out of the frustration of not being able to find a book on manners that instructs through stories rather than by rules of dos and don'ts." Each of her selections has been tried and tested on her own children, and each is introduced and concluded by her own thoughtful commentary. The result is an informality and intimacy that is inviting and infectious. 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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