Kerry Cronin’s classes at Boston College tackle what has apparently become an abstract and rarefied topic on college campuses.
Education
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
Can a parent’s perspective aid our understanding of Scripture?
I recoil when I read autobiographical explanations of someone else’s work. But not in these cases.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
What should be the main topic of discussion in this year’s state elections?
Respondents who named health care as their priority for state elections frequently specified the issue: how universal health care would benefit everyone.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Infographic: Tuition trends and Catholic college facts
Half of all students at Catholic colleges identify as Catholic, and 62 percent of all students are women.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Teaching America’s discarded youth
Review: Michelle Kuo’s “Reading With Patrick: a Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis to teachers: Help students to be open to others in a ‘culture of encounter.’
They need to be “capable of caring and tenderness—I am thinking of bullying here—free from widespread fallacies” that claim the only way to be worth anything is “to be competitive, aggressive and tough toward others
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
In cowboy country, inequality is not a bug. It’s a uniquely American strategy.
The goal is not to make sure everyone is safe and secure. It is to enable a few people to do really, really well.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
The Corrosion of High School Debate—And How It Mirrors American Politics
300 Words a Minute, and Going Nowhere: High School Debate Today.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Illinois Catholic schools set to receive support through new scholarship tax credit program
Proponents say the program will help to provide scholarships for 6,000 to 10,000 students in religious and other private schools statewide.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How modern technology helped me teach theology to uninterested college students
I have found that it is unproductive to force theological ideas into the minds of students despite their disinterest.