A Franciscan junior seminary in Wisconsin, still going strong after 150 years.
Single-Sex Education Around the Colonies
In something of a continuation of our last piece, we continue in our coverage of the trend towards single-sex schools in Australia, Canada and the US. Throughout the United States, but especially in the South (states like Louisiana, Texas, and Virginia), as well as in urban areas such as a Washington, D.C. and New York … Continue reading Single-Sex Education Around the Colonies
The New World of Single-Sex Education
After something of a hiatus, largely relating to intellectual fashion, single-sex education seems to be making new in-roads in public and private educational settings in the U.S. and Canada. Several stories this week have focused on the new moves to separate boys and girls in the classroom, whether it is single schools offering separated class … Continue reading The New World of Single-Sex Education
Seeds of Public School
To most Americans, the term 'public school,' especially when prefaced by the phrase 'inner-city,' conjures images of urban decay, illiteracy and unrelenting hopelessness – more Jonathan Kozol than Thomas Hughes. However, this has been quite inverted in the last few years in one of the regions of U.S. most affected by racial and class tensions: … Continue reading Seeds of Public School
Churchill Didn’t Say It
On 10 September, the Telegraph reported that many schools are now removing history from their curricula, or 'streamlining' it into another kind of course: Either a combination of history and geography (a practice which has been common in America for some time now) or else condensing it further in a rather vaguely defined 'humanities' course. … Continue reading Churchill Didn’t Say It
Catholic School Deals With Community Service
On Tuesday of last week, a great deal of noise was made in the British press about a Catholic school introuble. For all the coverage, one would expect a clergyman to have been involved – but no. In fact, the story relates to a Catholic school torn between its desire to continue to share its … Continue reading Catholic School Deals With Community Service
The Wrong Book of Numbers
Once more into the breach, then, this time against that slipperiest of enemies: Numbers, as presented by journalists. The L.A. Times, on 28 September, published a piece by Mitchell Landsberg entitled, "Atheists, Agnostics Most Knowledable About Religion, Survey Says". Mr. Landsberg goes on to cite a recent Pew survey, which seems to indicate that atheists … Continue reading The Wrong Book of Numbers
Boys say it’s cool to fool around in co-ed schools
boys are going to single sex schools because their parents think they will do better there
Pope Benedict on Education during the Papal Visit
Gently but firmly, Pope Benedict called Catholic education to a greater fidelity to its evangelical mission. In several of his addresses, especially one at St Mary's College Twickenham, he recalled the teaching of Cardinal Newman in his "Idea of a University" that the ethos of a place of learning is at least as important as … Continue reading Pope Benedict on Education during the Papal Visit
Bilingual education: the future for European schools?
Schools are enjoying Bilingual Education06 July 2010 Schools in Europe are enjoying their lessons in Bilingual Education. Bilingual education has been growing across Europe, and Cambridge is involved in a range of different bilingual projects. State schools in countries including Italy, Croatia, Sweden and Spain are implementing Cambridge International Education alongside the national curriculum as … Continue reading Bilingual education: the future for European schools?
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