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.
Education
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.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
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.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
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.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Bishops applaud Trump administration’s support for school choice proposal
Bishops Barber and Fitzgerald issued the statement expressing appreciation for the administration’s commitment to parental choice in education following a visit by Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to St. Francis de Sales Catholic School in Philadelphia.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Catholic colleges finally win independence from the federal Labor Board
A federal court has ruled that religious colleges cannot be ordered to recognize adjunct faculty unions. John Garvey, the president of the Catholic University of America, explains why.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
In an age of extreme individualism, Catholic schools are more important than ever
Traditional values can help individuals stay out of poverty, writes Kathleen Porter-Magee, and Catholic schools are still teaching them—resisting the slogan “do what feels good.”
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
How James G. Blaine became the face of anti-Catholicism in education
And what the editors of America magazine had to say about Blaine amendments