Currently, 27 states and the District of Columbia have some type of school choice measure in place and several states have legislation on the table for it this year.
Education
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Former Boston College President J. Donald Monan dies at 92
Father Monan led the Jesuit university for 24 years.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
5 tips for students engaging in politics on campus
This sobering new reality for immigrant students presents questions and issues for all students on campus as well as those high school seniors planning to attend college in the fall.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Media Nun: We need to become ‘cultural mystics’ to combat fake news
The problem of “fake news” is dizzying for journalists and media consumers alike.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
What Trump’s call for vouchers could mean for Catholic schools
Throwing something of a damper on the voucher enthusiasm is a string of recent studies that have cast doubt on the impact at the individual level of choice experiments.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Trump cites common good, but will he seek common ground?
Democrats should be focused on opportunities for genuine, bipartisan cooperation with the Trump administration.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
From the academy, books that think (and a few that sell)
Very few professors become best-selling authors, but it happens.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Learned on the street: Chicago student finds a way out of college homelessness
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates as many as 58,000 students across the United States—about one in 10—face homelessness at some point during college.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Without Catholic schools, ‘school choice’ is no choice at all
School choice does not mean abandoning the commitment to the common good exemplified by the Catholic school system.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
School choice movement gains speed
Currently, 27 states and the District of Columbia have some type of school choice measure in place and a number of states have legislation on the table for this year.