This study aims to measure the relative prominence of six scale values: Theoretical, Economic, Aesthetic, Social, Political, and Religious. The basic objective is a comparison between the local high school scores and the general norms of a national high school sample across the six values. (Author)

The recent shift in many Catholic colleges from theology departments to religious studies departments prompts the model suggested: a department with two programs, separate but equal--religious studies and theology. (MBR)

Industrial materials are used in the new gymnasium at St. Mary's College, a Catholic women's affiliate of the University of Notre Dame. (Author/MLF)

Martin de Porres School in Brooklyn, one of the last of its kind in this inner city, provides a quality education for a school population equally divided between Catholics and non-Catholics. Its goal is to help its students become self-motivated persons, happy with themselves and Christian toward their friends and neighbors. (Author/RK)

Author visits his former school, with its emphasis on the other Rs". (Editor/RK)

The idea of having a religious education center in a four car garage may sound ridiculous to some but to the parishioners of Saint George's Church in Guilford, Connecticut, it was heaven-sent. (Author/RK)

At a time when both public and parochial schools throughout the country are facing the prospect of continually declining enrollments, the Newark Archdiocese this year decided to see what a soft-sell campaign could do about it. (Author)

Describes the development and use of a whole-language (i.e., incorporating reading, writing, speaking, and listening) program for first through sixth graders at St. Michael School Michigan based on real book rather than elementary readers. Explains the classroom techniques used to teach various language arts. (DMM)

Mary Hatwood Futrell, President, National Education Association; Gorden M. Ambach, President, University of the State of New York; Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund; Rene C. Gonzalez, Office of Educational Research and Improvement; and Nancy Reagan identify students' noninstructional needs. (DMM)

Describes the changes undergone by De La Salle High School in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, as it sought to bring the local and rural poor into the mainstream of its educational efforts. (CBC)

Relates some of the public relations achievements and techniques of Edward L. Bernays. Sees modern public relations proceeding from an understanding of individuals, institutions and social groups, and their interrelationships. Considers the information dissemination, persuasion, and attitude integration functions of public relations. Lists…

Suggests ways for Catholic educators to teach about evolution; e.g., present evolution as widely accepted; note wide belief in God's creation of the world; do not present science and faith as mutually exclusive; present evolution as theory; and present both the evidence supporting and the problems accompanying evolutionary theory. (DMM)

Suggests ways that private schools support the public interest, focusing on educational research, reform, and opportunity; social issues; and economics. Looks at sources of public misunderstanding of the role of private schools. Sees the principal roles of nonpublic schools as sheltering private belief and protecting private conscience. (DMM)

Calls three lessons to be learned from John Goodlad's book, "A Place Called School," to the attention of Catholic educators: public schools are doing a satisfactory job, school climate is an important factor in satisfaction, and researchers' personal biases may influence their recommendations. (DMM)

Suggests that instructors teach the U.S. Catholic bishops' pastoral on economics by confronting today's moral confusion directly to promote values clarification. Reviews the historical causes of today's value conflicts, discusses the bishops' suggestions for resolving them, and offers assignments to help students clarify their own values. (DMM)