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.”
Education
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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.
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Schools help families with supplies, food in wake of closures
In just the first hour of a scheduled six-hour distribution effort at the school, 64 cars came through to get school supplies, laptops and food.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
How the Jesuits’ four apostolic priorities support global education for girls
The denial of education to girls is a violation of their dignity as human beings made in the image of God, writes Jenny Cafiso of Canadian Jesuits International.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Classical education is countercultural. It’s time to bring it back.
Anyone dissatisfied with the current state of elementary and high school education might ask why we don’t return to classical educational models.
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New report finds white supremacist propaganda on college campuses doubled in 2019
The report found a total of 2,713 cases of leafleting on and off campus — an average of more than seven per day— nationwide, compared with 1,214 in 2018.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic and public school teachers begin to strike in the face of education cuts
The job actions, which come alongside strikes by other teachers’ unions across the province, reflect a new breaking point in relations between public educators and the Progressive Conservative government of Ontario, led by Premier Doug Ford.
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The Guyanese school educating indigenous children in their native language
Indigenous primary school students grow up speaking one of several different indigenous languages of the interior of Guyana but when they begin school they encounter a system based on an English-language framework, referencing a culture and experiences they do not share.