Who decides what children get taught when it comes to moral and religious questions? Parents or the state?

Taken together, these strategies can make schools what they ought to be: ethical learning communities where respect and kindness are the norm and where every student is able to learn in a safe and supportive environment.

The 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.

What are students and what are professors or teachers?

The 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.

As Facebook and other "social media" have reminded us, there are many ways to bully, and technology is improving them every day.

On several occasions, Catholic parents have approached me about how to talk to their heterosexual teenagers about homosexuality. Many teenagers are very accepting of the homosexual orientation; they think it is just as natural as a heterosexual orientation.

Here is a book that will send a reviewer — and all decent-minded readers — groping for superlatives.

St. Martin de Porres school in Philadelphia is finding new life through the cooperation of three not-always-cooperative entities: church, community, and government.

Imagine 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?