A teacher in Guatemala relies on his bicycle to be his transportation and his classroom. Each day he pedals among the cornfields of Santa Cruz del Quiché to give individual instruction to his sixth-grade students.
Education
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Ruling in Montana case called welcome victory for religious freedom
Religious liberty advocates believe that the latest Supreme Court decision will finally banish the hated 19th-century Blaine Amendments for good.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schooling
The court upheld a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Where can we find shelter in a time of risk and uncertainty?
Can the humanities help us find intellectual, emotional and spiritual shelter during our present time of crises?
Posted inFaith, Features
The coronavirus gives Catholic universities a chance to strengthen their identity
In the coronavirus epidemic, Catholic educators have a real-world laboratory to evaluate how they make practical the too-often merely conceptual talk about Catholic identity. Do current pedagogies give students what we say they will—a truly distinctive way of being, a way of knowing and a way of responding to life’s most difficult problems?
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Online classes pose real learning curve for special needs students
Some students have a difficult time paying attention to a small screen; others struggle with dyslexia or reading disabilities; still others are hypersensitive to noise and things happening around them.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Dr. Anthony Fauci to Jesuit grads: ‘Now is the time for us to care selflessly about one another’
A 1958 graduate of Regis High School in New York and a 1962 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, Dr. Fauci encouraged graduating seniors at Jesuit high schools around the country to “be smart, strong and resilient.”
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Catholic educators wonder how to restart the next school year
Education leaders imagining how Catholic schools will safely reopen this fall agree on two things: different decisions will be made according to locations and reopening plans may change on short notice.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Who will we become after the coronavirus? For students, the key is resilience.
Children are grieving the absence of their teachers and schoolmates, writes Sister Rosemarie Nassif of the Center for Catholic Education. We can teach them to adapt to, and overcome, this disturbance in their lives.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
How has your family adapted to schooling at home?
America surveyed parents to see how their families have adapted to schooling at home.