The American Association of University Professors believes its removal of six colleges from its censure list, the largest since 1975, illustrates the strength and power of its sanction. All of the institutions revised their policies to comply with association standards on dismissals, tenure, and other issues of academic freedom. (MSE)

This article focuses on Ontario, Canada, which has had two separate, publicly supported school districts since the early 1980s. After summarizing history and constitutional issues, this article develops nine propositions leading to harsh conclusions: providing choice in public education is not easy and may result in diversity without choice.…

Catholic colleges and universities are seen as not Catholic institutions but American institutions of higher learning legally chartered to purvey first-rate education to American citizens. They are subsidized by the federal government and are also philosophically committed to the exploration of the Judeo-Christian-Catholic religious traditions.…

Discusses ways that high school teachers and counselors can mediate the process of reconnection between teenagers and their parents, whereby teenagers and parents choose to relate to one another in new and appropriate ways for persons of separate identity, unique personality and relative independence. (DMM)

Denominational instruction within public schools is inadequate for parents whose religious convictions are not satisfied by secular education. Fears of division in society, narrow curriculum, shortage of pupils, and shortage of funding have created legal and practical limits for establishing alternatives. (Author/JAZ)

This paper explores variations in the employment of minority teachers in elementary and secondary public, Catholic, and private (non-Catholic) schools. Based on a survey of schools conducted in the San Francisco Bay area during 1981-82, several determinants of minority employment are analyzed and the variations are explained. (Author/JAZ)

Discusses signs of a school's readiness to initiate an institutional development program; e.g., the school's leadership understands and appreciates the school's history; the school's mission and needs for growth and change are clearly understood; existing resources are soundly managed; and leadership understands its role in financial development.…

Catholic schools have a positive effect on verbal and mathematics achievement growth from the sophomore to senior year of high school. Catholic schools produce higher-achieving students in academic programs, require more semesters of academic coursework, and assign more homework. (Author/RM)

Private school regulation is a growing concern among school choice proponents. This paper uses a national survey of private schools to analyze the potential effects of various regulations. More than 1,000 schools answered questions about their willingness to participate in school choice programs if they had to comply with particular regulations.…

This report examines the academic performance of New York City's Catholic elementary schools compared with the city's public schools. Catholic elementary schools enroll 98,000 children in New York City, approximately 14 percent of public school enrollment. The report uses data from the State of New York's fourth and eighth grade tests in English…

This paper examines the increased activity in Vermont among proponents of educational vouchers for religious schools. It focuses on the "Chittenden" case, in which parents sued for tuition support to pay for their children's education at a local Roman Catholic high school. The report describes how the Roman Catholic Church and various…

This paper reports the results of a qualitative study investigating the dynamic operation of students' multiple motivational goals among the senior year cohort of a Catholic secondary boys school in Sydney, Australia. The study found that the relative salience of students' multiple goals, as well as the changing state of their ongoing academic…

"Transformation" is a process whereby an existing, controlled (predominantly Protestant) or maintained (predominantly Catholic) school can "transform" to Grant Maintained Integrated or Controlled Integrated status (a school where Protestants and Catholics are educated together). Since 1996, this process has been promoted by the…

Over the past 20 years independent lines of research in the fields of classroom environment and student attitudes to Christianity have been conducted. A study brought these two fields together by investigating the relationship between student perceptions of religious classroom environment and their attitudes toward Christianity. A personal form of…

With a renewed planning process Catholic higher education can withstand the tide of development our society is experiencing. (RK)