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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles:How About a Good Catholic Story? - Daniel HenningerOn June 10, Cristo Rey Catholic High School in East Harlem will graduate all of its 50 seniors. All come from families near or below the poverty level. All will attend college. Most were accepted into seven colleges. Read more... How can Catholics in a secularized school avoid being of their world? - Germain GrisezWe are twins, a sister and brother, and are writing this letter not just for ourselves, but for six friends of ours, too. We all went through St. Philomena's together, and all of us are now in the first year at the local public high school. It has its good points, but it also has a lot of problems, and I want to tell you about the problems. Read more... How Catholic are our Catholic Schools? - J. Fraser FieldWhat is the difference between what is being taught at your local Catholic school and what is being taught at the public school down the block? Read more... How Catholics Work Together: Ten Common Strengths and Weaknesses of Church-based Organizations - James BerlucchiThe Spitzer Center has worked with dozens of Catholic organizations, from parishes and dioceses to schools and health care systems. Read more... How I fell in love with Emily Post - Jonathan KayWhen I first read Etiquette in 1995, I was motivated by romantic desperation. Read more... How Not to Teach Morality - William KilpatrickIn learning right from wrong, young people ought to have the benefit of ideas that have been around for a while. Beginning in the 1960s, however, educators have vied to outdo one another in rushing the newest developments and techniques into the classroom and into young heads. Read more... How to Ask a Question - Peter WoodEvents open to public response these days are swamped with people who don't know how to ask questions. Here's how. Read more... How to Energize Educatio - TED FORSTMANN & BRUCE KOVNERWithout competition, monopolies are free to impose high prices and shabby products on consumers. Read more... How to fill a lecture hall, and how to empty it - Paul JohnsonI recently gave a lecture, on quite a solemn subject, the connection between freedom and the ownership of property, to about 200 people, and was gratified -- and surprised -- at how well it was received. Read more... How To Make Sure "Catholic" Colleges are REALLY Catholic - Deal HudsonI have a daughter who'll be heading off to college in a few years. Like any faithful parent, if she goes to a Catholic school, I want to make sure she's being taught authentic Catholicism. None of that watered-down nonsense, thank you very much. Read more... How to Wake Up Slumbering Minds - Christopher F. ChabrisWill the discoveries of neuroscientists help us to think, learn and remember? Read more... Humane Learning in the Age of the Computer - RUSSELL KIRKRussell Kirk's sobering reflections on the computer age are more pertinent today than at their writing in 1987. Read more... Humanist, Where Art Thou? - Anthony EsolenA person is most human not when he is mulling over the details of a marketing campaign, or carting a wheelbarrow full of clay for the fashioning of bricks without straw. Read more... Hyperactive or Just Plain Hype? - Jeff KormanMichelle Spurrier knew something was amiss by the time her son was 9 months old. Sure enough, as he grew, Christopher became increasingly defiant, throwing wild tantrums whenever he was urged to set aside one activity and begin another. Read more... Identity Crisis - John DunlapNear the end of the past winter quarter, one of the courses I'd been teaching for the classics department was taking its usual, peculiar toll. Read more... If You Want to Fail at Home Schooling . . . - Kimberly HahnHome schooling is an opportunity to prepare our children for their life's work. What a privilege to spend a quantity of quality time together. But there are things that can make home schooling a nightmare and guarantee failure. Here are 14 of them. Read more... Imagine - Robert RoyalImagine, if you will, just as a thought experiment, a nation that for two generations has been forming almost all its children in state-run schools. Read more... Immune to Reform - Marcus A. WintersTeachers’ unions will never willingly give up their power, says Terry Moe. Read more... Impressionable Minds: Teaching Politically Correct History - Tom O’BrienModerate as well as conservative historians have come to the conclusion that convergence theory and PC history have some serious problems. Read more... Improving Schools Through Choice - Armstrong WilliamsThere is no doubt that public education in this country has failed miserably. Read more... In Education, Character as Important as Skills - WILLIAM J. BENNETTThe highest values of education in a democracy are more than the competitive advantage of an increasingly productive labor force. Read more... In Philadelphia, A Model School Kindles Hope - Kevin E. SchmiesingSt. Martin de Porres school in Philadelphia is finding new life through the cooperation of three not-always-cooperative entities: church, community, and government. Read more... In the Name of the Father - William McGurnOf all the tests put to a priest, perhaps none is greater than the one Christ put to his disciples: Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? Read more... In the Vatican Gardens, faith meets reason - Fr. Raymond J. de SouzaNot everyone who comes here does so to exercise the soul. Read more... Intelligence in the Classroom - Charles MurrayHalf of all children are below average, and teachers can do only so much for them. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... 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