This paper raises awareness of the accomplishments of Catholic schools and discusses the model of quality education Catholic schools represent. First, a picture of American public education as a whole is presented, followed by a description of three areas in which the Catholic schools serve as a model for the reforms happening in American public…

Mary Emil Penet, I.H.M., (1916-2001) used her talents and charisma to shape the first national organization of American women religious, the Sister Formation Conference (SFC; 1954-1964), facilitating the integrated intellectual, spiritual, psychological, and professional development of vowed women religious. In the decade preceding Vatican II, her…

Catholic education surfaces as a focus and concern in every age of the U.S. Catholic experience. This article examines the struggles in one, small Midwestern diocese surrounding the establishment and advancement of Catholic education. Personal rivalries, relationship with Rome, local politics, finances, responding to broader social challenges, and…

This article offers an overview of the life and work of Eileen Egan, a contemporary and passionate Christian leader whose values can inform religious education today. It argues that her critical questioning of the traditions, assumptions, and premises of Catholic teaching on war and peace is a sign of the emancipatory, transformative learning that…

This examines the existing state of acculturation of Puerto Rican migrants living in Chicago and the extent to which religion affects their acculturation. Six variables (age, prior urban or rural residence, sex, recency of migration, religion, and religiousness) and the relationship of these variables to acculturation are investigated. The sample…

By adapting the theoretical framework and tools of several organizational researchers, hypotheses are formulated and tested related to the problem of compatibility between student personality needs and the authority structure of schools. (Author/ND)

A revision and clarification of organizational authenticity in terms of responsiveness claimed by administrators and responsiveness experienced by teachers. (Author/ND)

This document presents Volume V of the bound journal, "American Journal of Education." The journal was established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. Among the topics covered by the articles in this volume are: John Kingsbury and the Young Ladies' High School in Providence, Rhode Island; ventilation…

Excerpts from an address to the general meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (Houston, April 17, 1969).

The implications of disestablishment for Catholic objectives in higher education in Ireland, 1869-1879, are discussed, and the interrelationship of the questions of Church, land, and university education in Ireland is examined. Attention is directed to the extent to which the force of Ultramontanism, as expressed in the Catholic hierarchy's…

According to these authors, the Catholic board of education is the church's structural response to the need for the community to be broadly represented in educational policy decisions. This book of readings is intended to be an inservice tool for board members. Chapters concern the areas of board of education role, the organization of the Catholic…

This booklet contains various papers, commissioned by the National Catholic Educational Association, on the hiring, education, and evaluation of Catholic school teachers. The topics discussed include (1) guidelines for hiring teachers, (2) characteristics to look for in teachers, (3) preparation of teacher applications and conducting the…

Investigated were (1) how participation in a particular program in biology affected student attitudes toward science and toward the study of science, and (2) whether the student participants in this program developed an understanding of the processes of science. Students in six high schools were involved in this investigation. An…

Instructional Television of the Catholic Archdiocese of New York (ITV Center) is described as a fixed service broadcasting system which reaches 207 neighboring schools (188 elementary and 19 secondary), each of which is wired for closed circuit television. Production facilities, programing, and general administration of the ITV Center are…

This cross-national study initiated construction of a path model to analyze the development of self-evaluation among adolescents, and to show that this process of development occurs cross-culturally. Seven variables assumed to be antecedents of self-evaluation were included in the model: SES, support from the mother and from the father, the…