Describes EBIS (Education Board Inservice Series), a year-long series of monthly training sessions for Catholic parish leaders and Catholic school board members in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area. (Author/SJL)

The Developmental Economic Education Program (DEEP) promotes economics education centers at colleges which, in turn, affiliate with local school districts to jointly provide materials and teacher training for effective economics education. This article describes DEEP at the College of St. Thomas and the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese schools.…

To facilitate the goals of the International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP) in Catholic schools, the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin, is offering a consciousness raising, sensitization program. Teachers resource kits are provided to help students explore facts and attitudes about handicaps. Part of a theme issue on disabilities. (Author/SJL)

Presents a brief biographical sketch of Pope Pius XII and samples literary treatment of Pius's actions with respect to Nazi atrocities against the Jewish people during World War II. Concludes that Pope Pius XII failed to show moral leadership. Materials reviewed include historical texts, studies of the Vatican, documents related to the war period,…

Since individual urban parochial schools have the local autonomy necessary to implement organizational change, they may be better able to benefit from renewal than urban public schools. (JD)

Development of a high school media center and services. (KP)

The survival of Catholic education will require a profound commitment to continuing cooperation between parents and educators on the local level. Suggests the development of a parent advisory group and how it would operate. (Author/RK)

Merton and Kitts' thesis of anticipatory socialization is supported. The importance of the class of destination, as opposed to the class of origin is underscored implying that anticipatory socialization is a primary explanation for differential attitudes formulated before adolescents have undergone mobility or achieved status positions equal to…

Discusses an effort by students, parents, alumni, and alumni parents to help clean and paint Bishop Fenwick High School, in Massachusetts, as a way to "give something back" to the school; the event has been a springboard for other community service events, such as a landscaping day at the school. (AJL)

Discusses a study of a Mexican Roman Catholic high school's organizational culture, highlighting findings concerning school reform and improvement processes. The school stressed community and featured activities and values promoting student commitment to learning. Religion reinforced the school's "hidden curriculum" of good conduct and…

Discusses how NCEA offers financial planning support to members in a variety of ways, including tailored on-site consultation, regional workshops and sessions at the annual convention. Offers a list of publications that can be helpful in planning and conducting development programs and a directory of funding resources for Catholic activities. (MZ)

Details the establishment and development of the Base Education Movement (BEM) in Brazil in 1961-1967. Analyzes the political, social, and religious spheres in Brazil as to their respective impacts. Concludes the MEB and the Catholic Church worked to provide education for Brazil's socioeconomically oppressed. (KDR)

Using the 2002 Zelman v. Simmons-Harris educational voucher case in Cleveland, Ohio, as a point of departure, this article considers the past and current status of urban Catholic schools, appealing to the common good, to a common understanding, and to the common discourse in directing the United States' struggle to meet the needs of a diverse and…