If you teach high school or college students, or have kids who are passing through those places, and if your duties include grading papers, or you watch your kids struggle with writing assignments, I have a piece of advice. Tell them to try composing by hand, with pen and paper, not on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Memory is often a powerful means of awakening the religious sense. Continue Reading »
Don J. Briel has devoted his life to enlivening Catholic higher education and converting young minds, hearts, and souls to the truth of Christ. Continue Reading »
At a time when many Catholic schools are closing, the Cristo Rey network of Catholic high schools is opening new institutions. Continue Reading »
One of the few things liberal and conservative educators agree on these days is that college students are too fragile. Many of them are intellectually and emotionally unable to engage ideas uncongenial to them. Many are incapable of accepting honest assessments of their academic performance. They . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent study suggests that when there are more girls in the classroom, the performance of boys improves. Continue Reading »
America’s schools cannot claim that their graduates are well educated unless they have knowledge of the Bible. Continue Reading »
Hell hath no fury like secular parents who learn that the local church-run nursery school plans to start teaching about Jesus. Continue Reading »
Peter Meyer discusses the history of Catholic education in the United States from its heyday in the 1960s to its virtual dissolution in the twenty-first century. Continue Reading »
John Senior and the Restoration of Realismby francis bethel, o.s.b.thomas more, 452 pages, $34.99 H igher education has survived the end of the American century, if just barely. American colleges and universities are like a naval mothball fleet that’s still afloat but not seaworthy. Some schools . . . . Continue Reading »
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