Points out the number of cultural groups within the rubrick "Asian-American," offers demographic data about these groups, and provides a broad portrait of the cultural characteristics and values of Asian Americans. (DMM)

Describes Catholic education as a process of developing capacities for two roles--one as a member of the Catholic church and the other as a citizen of the nation and the world. Points to sectarian and secular temptations to be avoided in Catholic education. (DMM)

Addresses issues related to stipend, compensation, and benefit levels for the religious working in Catholic schools. Stresses the need for the development of a new, more equitable model of compensation. (CBC)

Uses data from two national surveys of Catholic high schools to address what types of schools have development programs, what types of development programs do they have, and how the programs vary according to school characteristics. Finds that most schools engaged in some sort of development activity, with 84 percent undertaking fund-raising…

Describes characteristic behaviors of preschoolers, early and later latency children, and adolescents experiencing the effects of divorce. Suggests ways that teachers should respond to these behaviors, stressing the importance of sensitivity and communication. Delineates six developmental tasks faced by children when dealing with divorce. (DMM)

This book is a theological essay on education, particularly higher education in a Roman Catholic context. The book is organized as a fourfold delineation of reality, with one chapter given to each component. An introductory chapter deals with teaching, research and publication, and with theology: the Christian faith, and the difference God makes.…

Ten exemplary program descriptions arose from the 1998 conference hosted by Selected Programs for Improving Catholic Education (SPICE), an organization created to assist Catholic school leaders to choose and replicate programs that successfully meet the needs of the contemporary Catholic school. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the annual…

This statistical profile is a followup to a previous National Association of Parish Catechetical Directors' (NPCD) study of catechetical leadership. Since 1985, the NPCD, which is a professional association of approximately 1,700 parish catechetical/religious education leaders, has surveyed parish Directors to profile their training and…

Reports on an experimental program in the Mary Immaculate parish, Dallas, Texas, which coordinated religious instruction in the school and the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) classes. (DS)

Baltimore, Maryland's parochial school system includes 27 schools serving 48 parishes in a network of eight school clusters organized around the primary-middle school concept. (DS)

Presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-10, 1969.

The Christian educational community will be enhanced when all persons within it treat each other with the respect and dignity that is their right. Where teachers are poorly paid or treated like children by administrators, respect is diminished and the educational process suffers. (Author/SJL)

Argues that "no one and everyone" controls Catholic schools, and that empirical investigation is needed to determine who controls any particular Catholic school. However, "the chaos of organization the obscurity of control, the general structural messiness of Catholic education doesn't seem to do much harm to anybody." (Author/JM)