Educators and school administrators have developed a fear of falling behind.
Matt Emerson
Matt Emerson is the author of Why Faith? A Journey of Discovery (Paulist Press, 2016). His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including America and The Wall Street Journal.
Posted inThe Ignatian Educator
Mere Shakespeare
Paula Marantz Cohen Professor at Drexel University has written WSJ 4 18 one of the best defenses of teaching Shakespeare — mere Shakespeare I should say — I 39 ve read in recent memory Her opening paragraphs nbsp Of all the courses I have taught over my 30 years as an English professor t
Posted inThe Ignatian Educator
What Are You Reading This Summer?
A couple of recommendations from Matt Emerson on the Ignatian Educator blog
Posted inThe Ignatian Educator
Commencement Speakers, Part I
Who will be addressing graduates of Catholic universities this spring?
Posted inThe Ignatian Educator
Jordan Speith, Jesuit Grad
A great news item about the recent Masters champion Jordan Speith who is a graduate of Jesuit College Prep in Dallas Texas courtesty of the Dallas Morning News nbsp
Posted inThe Ignatian Educator
Saint G.K. Chesterton?
Support for the canonization of the Catholic thinker from an unlikely place
Posted inThe Ignatian Educator
A New President for Loyola Marymount University
Loyola Marymount University the Jesuit university of Los Angeles has named a successor to outgoing presidnent David W Burcham The Los Angeles Times has the details surrounding the selection of Timothy Law Snyder as the next LMU president Prayers and best wishes to Professor Snyder and the entir
Posted inThe Ignatian Educator
Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J. at “On Being”
The public radio program quot On Being quot as its website says quot opens up the animating questions at the center of human life What does it mean to be human and how do we want to live We explore these questions in their richness and complexity in 21st-century lives and endeavors quot qu
Posted inThe Ignatian Educator
When We Look at Our Pasts, What Do We See?
Science confirms what the great Christian memoirists intuited: stories matter.
Posted inThe Ignatian Educator
A New Leader for the Congregation of Catholic Education
Yesterday Pope Francis named Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi as the new prefect for the Congregation of Catholic Education I cannot find much about him but Crux has the story nbsp The Italian cardinal succeeds Polish nbsp Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski who had led the congregation since 1999 In Octobe