This issue of the monthly newsletter for the Council for American Private Education (CAPE) includes the following articles: (1) President Bush Signs Voucher Legislation; (2) Secretary Paige Makes Case for Choice; (3) Bush Addresses Catholic Educators; and (4) CAPENotes.

Describes the Oyster School in Washington, D.C. and their thorough bilingual program. (GB)

Special issue dedicated to reveiwing aspects of Catholic training in French schools. (DS)

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)

Describes the political, religious, and legal problems involved when, after 1761, the Crown and Parliament began the shift of control over local secondary education from the Jesuits to local municipalities. (MF)

Cites three challenges facing Catholic school ministries of the 1980s: keeping Catholic schools Catholic; increasing schools' academic excellence; and putting schools on sound financial bases. Meeting these challenges will provide schools with a better chance for survival. (DMM)

Summarizes the major themes of "Gathering God's People: Signs of a Successful Parish," a National Catholic Educational Association publication dealing with various aspects of parish ministry. Underscores the need to integrate Catholic schools with the church's mission; increase parent involvement; and address potential problems in…

Responds to an article on St. Thomas Aquinas College's Great Books Curriculum (EJ 240 962). Endorses the program's aims of using Great Books as a means to truth, not as an end in themselves, but feels that the approach is too narrow and too reliant upon authority and that it fails to develop complex thinking and knowing methods. (DMM)

Presents research and survey conclusions on the future of Catholic schools. Addresses the main trends in Catholic schools, priorities for Catholic education, identifying characteristics of future Catholic schools, main problems to be faced, and the role of priests, religion, and laity in the schools. (DMM)

An interview with Father Albert McBride, formerly of the National Catholic Educational Association's National Forum for Religious Educators. Father McBride gives his opinion on such issues as the problems and future of religious education and trends in the Catholic Church. (SJL)

Shares with the reader a brief review of the state of the art in moral education and indicates areas which require further development. Catholic schools, as participants in moral education from the time of their foundation, are singled out for their actual and potential contributions to the field. (Author/RK)