Explores how learning policies can enhance efforts to implement the Catholic bishops' peace pastoral. Focuses on balance between conscience and authority, resolution of conflict, and education stressing the importance of the person. (LAL)

Covers parent involvement in two organizational structures: boards for policy-making and/or advising pastors and bishops, and parent organizations formed to support Catholic parish or diocese educational efforts. Suggests that parents organize for mutual help with parenthood tasks. (DMM)

This document is a statistical report on Catholic elementary and secondary schools in the United States. The first part of this report presents data concerning an overview of the historical dimensions of Catholic education and the context of American education in which private schools operate. The second part includes Catholic school enrollment…

The assistant principal of a Catholic elementary school carries out some of the duties (with the needed authority) of the school principal. How tasks and authority are delegated vary and depend upon the personality of each individual school. Fifteen assistant principals wrote essays relating one of their chief responsibilities to show a wide…

Two pastoral priorities that today's catechetical leaders place toward the top of their agenda are assessment and integration. Each priority has a rich fullness, grounded in the church's contemporary catechetical documents. This book tells the story of what youths know about their faith and how they put their faith into action. The chapter titles…

A decline in the number of members of congregations or orders working at Catholic colleges and universities has left lay people as the primary stewards of Catholic higher education. A restructuring that began in the late 1960s established formalized, shared-governance relationships in which most congregations turned over ownership of colleges to…

The analysis of student attitudes toward preferred academic goals and institutional priorities presented here was part of an overall study of university goals undertaken by a Catholic, coeducational, urban university. (Author/KM)

The mystique says that the women will always be available whenever the Church needs them, but unless we wipe the stardust from our eyes, we will be faced with an alarming shortage of capable candidates for the few archdiocesan positions that are finally carved out for women to serve. (Author/CB)

The author explains why he feels that "...the position of food service director is the most difficult one within the institution--far more difficult and much less rewarding than that of administrator." (Author)

The history of the development of a secular curriculum for Catholic schools in mid-nineteenth century England. (RA)

The contention is made that current attitudes among legislators, federal and state, preclude any financial relief for Catholic schools in the near future. (CK)

A position paper presented to the Catholic National Library Association (CNLA) on Library Education. (Author)

Case histories of three New Jersey elementary school libraries. (JW)