Reports that the Assessment of Catholic Religious Education (ACRE), which looks at content and technical properties of Catholic education, is being revised. Provides a projected time line for the revision process and states that the new version will be available for the 2001-2002 school year. Asserts that schools need to be ready to make the…

The Christian Brother organization, the largest order of teaching brothers in the Catholic Church, is currently facing a shrinking work force which is forcing the organization to rethink its current allocation of resources. Two surveys were administered to 163 brothers within the New Orleans/Santa Fe district; the response rate for the first…

The author asserts that "historically, Catholic and Jewish immigrants started life in America with radically different value orientations with respect to education and intellectual achievement." He concludes that in this century the resulting imbalance in the participation of these groups in higher education is being redressed as the…

The life and work of John Lancaster Spalding focused on the importance of Catholic ideals of life and education in the development of the human person and society in order to fit them to the high purpose of participating in God's reign on earth and preparation for humanity's ultimate end--eternal life with God. Following a brief biographical…

The educational reform of America's secondary schools has been the subject of conferences and documents. The National Catholic Education Association concurs with many of the ideas presented by proponents of this renewal, but the association believes there are omissions in philosophy and proposals espoused by the reformers. In this bulletin,…

The preceeding article (EJ 163 640) in this series sketched the history of the NCEA through contributions made by two early leaders, Thomas J. Conaty and Francis W. Howard, 1899-1920. This article deals with the next twenty-five year period, 1920-1944, in the NCEA's history and the influence that Francis Howard and George Johnson had in helping…

Recommendations for the reorganization of Catholic secondary schools located in the inner city are presented. (MJM)

Describes the secularization of French secondary schools ("colleges") between 1761-63 when the Parlement expelled Jesuits from their schools and disallowed the order's teaching function. Administrative authority was given to local municipalities who struggled to staff and fund the schools. French universities reluctantly assumed…

Discusses why Catholic school parents and teachers have advocated for educational reform and how, as a result, public policies can become more responsive to the needs of our Catholic school communities. States that Catholic school advocacy networks help Catholic school communities to advocate federal/state public policy agendas. (VWC)

Describes the changes undergone by De La Salle High School in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, as it sought to bring the local and rural poor into the mainstream of its educational efforts. (CBC)

Describes founding in 1870 of a German gymnasium in Buffalo, arguing that it illustrates both the continuing European influence on American educational institutions and the process by which such institutions are adapted to conditions in the United States. (Author/CMG)

Author suggests that educators teaching in areas of large numbers of Spanish-speaking people should try to add a Latin dimension whenever and wherever it is approriate. Latin-American adults and youth should become involved--and they want to become involved--in the school as resource persons, teacher aides and special occasion speakers. (Author/CB)

There is a great future to religious education but only on the condition that it be reborn from a meeting of good educational theory and sound theological study. (Author)