The Secretary of Education stirred up controversy when she said it was up to schools to decide if an undocumented student should be reported to authorities.
Education
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Betsy DeVos and Cardinal Dolan are at odds over details of school funding
Advocates of programs to support non-public schools say that they are implemented at the state level within existing agencies and question the claim by Ms. DeVos that a federal law would lead to more bureaucracy.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Is Catholic identity hurting enrollment at Catholic colleges?
All colleges face budget challenges, but Catholic schools must also contend with marketing to an increasingly secular applicant pool.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
Can a college course teach students how to date?
Kerry Cronin’s classes at Boston College tackle what has apparently become an abstract and rarefied topic on college campuses.
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.