High school students build a wall to spark discussion about immigration.
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Jesuit Schools and March Madness
The nbsp Washington Post nbsp recently addressed the high number of Catholic and Jesuit institutions competing successfully in NCAA Men 39 s basketball nbsp Sixty-eight teams make it into the NCAA Division I men rsquo s championship mdash affectionately known as March Madness mdash each year
Coding in the Curriculum
The New York Times reports on the increasing number of schools offering computer programming Around the world students from elementary school to the Ph D level are increasingly getting acquainted with the basics of coding as computer programming is also known From Singapore to Tallinn governmen
Our Lady of Sorrows
The worst thing imaginable, the loss of a child, was borne by the mother of God.
Pittsburgh Bishop: No to Common Core
The Most Reverend David A Zubik Bishop of Pittsburgh has a nbsp written a column nbsp for the nbsp Pittsburgh Catholic nbsp explaining why the city 39 s diocesan schools will not be implementing the Common Core State Standards According to Bishop Zubik A number of parents have raised questions
Saint Louis University Announces New President
Saint Louis University where I spent a great four years and graduated with a degree in philosophy today announced its new president Fred P Pestello Ph D Pestello currently president of Le Moyne College in Syracuse NY succeeds Fr Lawrence Biondi S J and is the first permanent lay preside
In Search of ‘Moreness’
Over at quot The Stone quot a blog of the New York Times that the paper describes as a quot forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless quot Rebecca Newberger Goldstein has a fascinating post on the human quest to escape obscurity In her essay q
Fr. Nicolás on Collaboration & Re-Creation
In the course of keeping myself fresh on Ignatian and Jesuit education I 39 ve been reading some of the talks of the Jesuit Superior General Fr Adolfo Nicol s S J I realized that despite all that I 39 ve read on Catholic and Jesuit education I 39 ve not spent much time discovering what he
Interview with Fr. George Coyne, S.J.
Syracuse com in conjunction with Syracuse 39 s nbsp The Post-Standard has published an interview with Fr George Coyne S J former director of the Vatican Observatory and one of the more well known of those scholars and priests trying to show the relationship or where appropriate the lack th
Gates Foundation Awards Notre Dame $23m
As reported by Reuters it was good news last week for Notre Dame The Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded 23 million for research being led by University of Notre Dame biologists to prevent malaria and dengue fever the school said The five-year project by biologists Neil Lobo and Nicol
