About 50 percent of the schools received support or involvement from religious institutions or organizations, according to the report.
Education
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The church can help prevent sexual violence—by doing a better job teaching about sex
Far from encouraging sexual activity, the right kind of sex education can teach children that they have the agency to say “no.” Parishes and faith-based groups are ideal for delivering this message.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Supreme Court appears to side with football coach over postgame prayers
The majority of Supreme Court justices seemed to side with a former high school football coach who said his postgame prayers on the field amounted to private speech.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Want to save the liberal arts? Learn a few things from the business world.
Liberal arts universities face the twin crises of an enrollment decline and a perception of irrelevancy. They should abandon any squeamishness about using better marketing techniques.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Teachers at Catholic schools should conform to church teaching, Vatican congregation says
But the Congregation for Catholic Education also said that administrators should not be too quick to dismiss employees who are not “totally” Catholic.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Catholic philosopher Alice von Hildebrand didn’t need to proselytize to bring her students to God
Alice von Hildebrand was one of the heroes of faith in our time. We should cherish her memory.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
‘It isn’t Latin or Greek I’m teaching, but how to think’: Memories of a formative Jesuit educator
As a young teacher at Canisius High School in Buffalo, N.Y., John W. Donohue, S.J., worked with Thomas J. Jones, the senior member of the lay faculty: “From him I was to learn more about the practice of teaching than from any book or course in education.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
To understand our battles over critical race theory and liberation theology, look to Brazil’s fight over Paulo Freire’s legacy
The current mischaracterization of Freire by the political right in Brazil has parallels with the campaign of the political right in the United States against critical race theory.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Young women, #MeToo and clergy sex abuse: Lessons from my students
My students at a Catholic women’s college have taught me—and can teach the rest of the church—a great deal about living in a church marred by the scandal of sexual abuse by clergy.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Remember your favorite childhood books? Read them again.
Why do most people stop reading children’s books they loved once they come of age? Books from our childhood can still do so much good work for us.