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Catholic Schools and the Common Good
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In this article, the authors present the tradition of Catholic schools research past and present and present INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS Classroom Life Curriculum and Academic Organization Communal Organization Governance DIVERSITY AMONG CATHOLIC SCHOOLS The Transition to High School Variations in Internal Operations Single-Sex versus Coeducational Schools EFFECTS The Impact of Academic Organization The impact of Communal Organisation IMPLICATIONS Catholic Lessons for America's Schools Epilogue: The Future of Catholic High SchoolsAbstract:
Preface Prologue CONTEXT The Tradition of Catholic Schools Research Past and Present INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS Classroom Life Curriculum and Academic Organization Communal Organization Governance DIVERSITY AMONG CATHOLIC SCHOOLS The Transition to High School Variations in Internal Operations Single-Sex versus Coeducational Schools EFFECTS The Impact of Academic Organization The Impact of Communal Organization IMPLICATIONS Catholic Lessons for America's Schools Epilogue: The Future of Catholic High Schools Notes References Indexread more
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Mauritian principals' responses to total quality management concepts in education
TL;DR: This article investigated the link between total quality management (TQM) and school leadership in Mauritius and found that whilst principals overwhelmingly agreed with progressive notions compatible with TQM, their discourses remained essentially theoretical.
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The Role of School Governance in the Creation of School Community
Robert G. Croninger,Betty Malen +1 more
TL;DR: The role of school communities in school governance has been discussed extensively as discussed by the authors. But the role of formal governance in the creation of positive forms of community has not been considered carefully, and it is not surprising because many conceptualizations of community are rooted in Utopian notions of families, neighborhoods and schools.
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No Margin, No Mission: Challenges for Catholic Urban Schools in the USA
TL;DR: In the USA over 220 Catholic schools closed in 2006, many of which were in urban areas, leaving a number of parents, students, and teachers forced to fi nd new schools as mentioned in this paper.
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Student interracial interactions and perceptions of school as a community
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of positive and negative interracial interactions on whether students sense that their school is a community were examined in a large sample of elementary and secondary schools in a major urban school district.
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Reimagining the Catholic school: An exploration of principals' responses to changing contexts of the contemporary Catholic school
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the changing social, ecclesial and educational contexts within which the Catholic school has operated in the decades following the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and found that the demise of "inherited meanings" and the reimagining of a new meaning structure provided the conceptual template for the study.