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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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Employee morale and organizational climate in schools: the importance of affective coworker relationships
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Comparing the Influence of Religion on Education in the United States and Overseas: A Meta-Analysis
Abstract: For nearly four decades there has been a considerable amount of debate on the effects of religious schools and religious commitment on educational outcomes.1 Most of this research has focused on the influence of religious schools. However, in recent years a growing number of studies have focused on religiosity.2 About twenty years ago studies undertaken by Coleman and his associates,3 as well as other social scientists,4 indicated that religious school students enjoyed a significant academic advantage over their counterparts in public schools. Even when controlling for socioeconomic status (SES), race, and past achievement, religious school students enjoyed a distinct advantage. The results suggested that the quality of education offered in the schools was the major ingredient behind the “school effect.”5 Other studies have suggested that the “religious advantage” not only exists at the macro or school level, but also at the individual level, i.e., at the level of religious commitment.6 The interest of social scientists in the impact of religious schools and religiosity exists both in the United States and overseas, principally in Europe.7 Given that this subject enjoys attention in different parts of the globe, the question arises whether the “religious advantage” is roughly the same or different in other parts of the world, especially Europe, as it is in the United States. There are compelling reasons to believe that the “religious advantage” is greater either in the United States or in other parts of the world. First, there are some reasons to suppose the edge that religious schools and people enjoy over their less-religious counterparts may be larger in the United States. Americans claim to be more religious than people living in Europe, where most of the international studies have been done.8 Second, American religious schools probably have greater liberty to practice according to their religious identity than their counterparts in Europe, because of a higher level of direct government involvement in all levels of private schooling in Europe and in other nations.9 This may cause the “religious academic edge” to be larger in American than European (or other) nations.
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Other faith students in Maltese Catholic schools: responses of school leaders
TL;DR: This paper conducted interviews with Maltese Catholic school headteachers which showed a variety of responses to the growing number of African students of "other faiths" who are arriving in the island.
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Educational attainment in the short and long term: was there an advantage to attending faith, private, and selective schools for pupils in the 1980s?
Alice Sullivan,Samantha Parsons,Francis Green,Richard D. Wiggins,George B. Ploubidis,Timmy Huynh +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors ask whether private, selective, and faith schools in England and Wales in the 1980s provided an academic advantage to their pupils, both in the short and longer term.
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Character-building and freedom in education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the answer is not for government to require a pedagogy of state-defined character education which, in a pluralistic society, would inevitably create new conflicts, and instead, education policy should take advantage of the growing interest on the part of educators in creating autonomous, distinctive schools, and the continuing interest, in being able to choose what school their children will attend.