Education

Group Sees Hypocrisy in Schools’ Embracing “Gay Pride,” Rejecting “In God We Trust”

by Jim Brown October 19, 2005

The same school board that ignored parents' objections and allowed what many regard as a “gay pride” flag to be placed in a Livingston County, Michigan, high school has repeatedly rejected the idea of displaying posters featuring the US national…

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California School Officials Agree to Allow Student’s Dance to Christian Song

by Jim Brown October 15, 2005

A California high school says it will no longer prohibit a student from using religious music to accompany her dance performance audition for a January dance team concert. Officials with West High School in Torrance initially told student Lauren Stoudt…

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Theory of Evolution Not Intelligent Design Is Most Like Creationism

by Brian Fahling October 14, 2005

Dover, Pennsylvania finds itself in the national spotlight as the putative successor to Dayton, Tennessee, the rural community where the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial played out on the national stage.
This small, blue-collar community in rural Pennsylvania finds itself in…

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Back to School with FOCUS

by CE Editors October 11, 2005

On college campuses across the country, parents drop off their sons and daughters for their freshman year at college. For most, this is their first time living away from home. Move-in week is also one of the most exciting times…

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True Freedom and the Liberal Arts

by Kristen Harr October 7, 2005

How does one rise above a society which believes liberty to be license and MTV to be the ultimate art? The liberal arts set students on the path of true freedom within the absolutes of the arts. Ave Maria University…

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Study Shows In-Classroom TV Ads Promote Tobacco Use Among Youth

by Mary Rettig October 5, 2005

The executive director of Commercial Alert, a group dedicated to protecting children from commercialism, says schools are unwittingly promoting tobacco use to millions of students.
Gary Ruskin says Channel One — an in-school television program promoted as news — is…

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Schools Do Not Have Tell Parents About “Diversity” Classes

by CE Editors September 29, 2005

After a Massachusetts school board decided to incorporate so-called diversity training in its classes, which includes indoctrination in the homosexual lifestyle, local superintendent Paul Ash notified schools that parents need not be contacted about the program.
Last April, as reported…

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Revitalizing a Treasure of the Church

by Sarah Jane von Haack September 27, 2005

“The musical tradition of the universal Church is a treasure of inestimable value, greater even than that of any other art.” (Sacrosanctum Concilium) Is this today’s understanding of the Catholic Church’s musical tradition? Do most American Catholics know and appreciate…

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Thirty Years of Creating Quality Catechetical Resources

by Lisa Hendey September 24, 2005

Q: What closing comments would you like to share with our readers?
A: Through divine revelation we know and believe that our dignity as individual human persons originates from our Creator’s love for us: God created humanity in the divine…

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Separate Sex-Ed Demanded By Scottish Catholic Parents

by CE Editors September 23, 2005

Scottish parents have increased demands to keep their children out of increasingly explicit school sex-ed programs says Gregory Carlin, spokesman for The Rights of the Scottish Child organization.
Carlin told LifeSiteNews.com this past June that “The dreadful record of teenage…

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