This study explored the effectiveness with which Catholic secondary schools served students from low-income families, with particular emphasis on the usefulness and results of tracking. Teams of researchers spent one full week in each of three Catholic secondary schools on the east coast gathering data through interviews with students, teachers,…

Over 11,000 parents of pre-high-school-age children from the Archdiocese of Washington (D.C.) rated the importance of eight factors which influenced their decisions to send their children to Catholic schools. The sample included about 2,000 non-Catholic parents with children in Catholic schools and about 1,700 Catholic parents with children not in…

Different theorists have suggested that an individual's view of God may be related to one's view of one's father, one's mother, or one's self. A study was conducted to examine the relationship of college students' conceptions of the wrathfulness-kindliness of God to their conceptions of their father's and mother's permissiveness, authoritarianism,…

This report presents the results of a study of the Catholic elementary schools in greater Cincinnati. Primary purpose of the study was to determine whether too many small elementary schools and too many small classes make consolidation of Catholic elementary schools in the Cincinnati area economically desirable in light of declining population and…

The Catholic church recommends that both lay persons and the ordained leadership participate in the decision making process in Catholic schools. The study, an adaptation of a dissertation, abstracts a theory and develops a model to help Catholic educators share this responsibility. The journal is published by Notre Dame Journal of Education, P. O.…

Analysis of comparison between parochial and public school administrators shows that they basically share common work values. (ND)

Presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-10, 1969.

A survey of resources is provided for improving youth programs conducted by religious organizations. After a brief introductory chapter establishing the focus of the document, the second chapter offers an overview of adolescent physical, intellectual, moral, social, emotional, and religious development. In addition, the attitudes of young…

This paper argues that the 1980s and the 1990s are likely to be a positive period for Catholic and other forms of private education due to several societal factors: (1) economic trends which question the advisability of total or near-total government subsidy of education; (2) sociological trends which favor the "privatization" of American society,…

European legal traditions are bound very closely to the religious, moral, and ethical traditions of Christianity. It is therefore disconcerting to find persons involved in Catholic education, whether as students, staff, or professional educators, turning to civil authority to find just resolution of their school-related problems. It is especially…

IN A LETTER TO ALL CHICAGO ARCHDIOCESE ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH SCHOOLS, ALBERT CARDINAL MEYER QUOTES A PLEDGE, MADE BY THE CHICAGO CONFERENCE ON RACE AND RELIGION, FOR FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES IN CHURCH-RELATED INSTITUTIONS. HE STATES THE REGULATIONS TO IMPLEMENT THIS PLEDGE. FAIR EMPLOYMENT REGULATIONS FOR LAY TEACHERS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS…

Three urban training programs for clergy sponsor Research on Training for Metropolitan Ministry (RTMM), a project of the Ministry Studies Board of the National Council of Churches. RTMM has two main objectives: to increase understanding of the relationships among the attitudes, skills, and activities of clergymen, and to identify changes in these…

A 1964 report describes various Catholic programs and projects which foster interracial justice. The material is presented under the rubrics of curriculum guides, programs for teachers, programs for youth, and continuing programs in educational planning (which also includes non-Catholic compensatory education efforts and interracial understanding…

Differences in acculturation patterns among Protestant and Catholic (Orthodox) Syrians in a city in the southern United States are examined in this paper. Theoretical perspectives on religious/cultural group assimilation are reviewed and the methodology of the current study is outlined. The history of Protestantism in traditionally Catholic Syria…