This paper analyzes educational trends in Catholic high schools in the 1970s. A discussion of the religious aspects of Catholic school education includes spiritual development of the individual, emphasis on the social justice side of a Christian vocation, faculty responsibility for religious formation, and systematic planning to address the…

The crises in education today are nowhere more critical than those in Catholic schools and are nowhere more dependent for resolution than on lay teacher militancy, labor support, and Federal Government involvement. Historically, lay teachers made up the majority of Catholic school staffs from the 18th through the mid-19th century; they seem…

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…

In her book "Building Better Boards," Sister Lourdes Sheehan listed eight reasons for establishing and fostering Catholic education boards. This paper presents findings of a study that gathered information about boards in different types of Catholic elementary and secondary schools. A national survey of almost 1,400 Catholic schools received 806…

The Shared Christian Praxis model for religious education, developed by Thomas Groome and described in the diocesan religious education curriculum, "Sharing Our Story" (SOS, 1991) has been highly influential in Australian Catholic religious education. This paper explores the planning, implementing, and evaluating of religious education…

This paper reports on research into the professional development practice of principals in the Diocese of Parramatta, which administers a system of approximately 75 schools in the west of Sydney, Australia. A survey of 46 principals gathered data on respondents' qualifications, association membership, participation in Catholic Education Office…

The speech/debate team at St. Mary's High School in Stockton, California, begins each competition with a prayer and does not emphasize winning trophies. Nevertheless, they consistently qualify their students at the yearly state championships. According to their coach, this is because the school has supportive and encouraging administrators and…

Papers from special seminars and the 1984 annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) are presented. Issues pertaining to sponsorship of a college or university, and specifically sponsorship by a religious body, are addressed in seven articles. Considerations that may be common to all types of institutional…

This study was conducted to examine the effects of consultation on consultee perceptions of the causality of children's school- related problems and the expectations for successful problem resolution. Participants were 39 volunteer teachers from Catholic elementary schools, none of whom had ever before worked with a consultant. Consultants were 7…

Political and social issues have moral dimensions that make them proper subjects for consideration from a religious perspective. The separation of church and state is not intended to prevent religions, religious leaders, or religious beliefs from playing a role in the development of public policy, but instead to prevent favoritism or…

Faith stage development of Catholic college seniors was compared with their levels of denominational affiliation as a follow-up of a similar study of the students during their sophomore year. The students were male and female dormitory residents from the liberal arts and business schools of an eastern Catholic university. Affiliation was defined…

Disappointment in public education seems to have inspired an increased interest in private education. Data provided by the Center for Education Statistics, the National Catholic Educational Association, and the Bureau of the Census Current Population Survey were studied to assess the trend from 1976 to 1985 concerning the number of schools,…