At a time when Catholic secondary schools are closing all across the country, this book, edited by Cara Stillings Candal and Chris Sinacola, reviews the successes of this education model in Massachusetts, and offers recommendations to help these schools increase student enrollment. It includes chapters from a range of renowned experts; a foreword by George Weigel, author of an international bestselling two-part biography of Pope St. John Paul II; and an introduction from former Ambassadors to the Holy See Raymond Flynn and Mary Ann Glendon. The book contends that Catholic schools in Massachusetts must focus on the characteristics that make them academically successful and distinguish them from traditional public schools, but must also seek new models and governance structures that will help them achieve financial sustainability. At the same time, barriers to public support of the schools should be eliminated. Catholic schools in Massachusetts deliver high test scores, high college attendance and graduation rates. The majority of elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Boston are in urban areas and disproportionately serve poor and minority families. Parents of all faiths and beliefs are also drawn to the unrelenting focus on achievement, classic liberal arts education, discipline and values that are part of a Catholic education. Catholic educators are developing new models to address these challenges, and the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue was an important step toward invalidating so-called Blaine Amendments to the constitutions of Massachusetts and many other states that prohibit public money from flowing to religious schools parents. Among its many recommendations, the book includes a proposal for a tax credit scholarship program for Massachusetts that would likely have been impermissible prior to Espinoza.Reviews: “Pioneer’s book A Vision of Hope: Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts highlights why K–12 Catholic education is the crown jewel in a state long known for academic excellence. This is a must read for those who care about the future of Catholic schools in the Commonwealth, while also offering key lessons for policy makers across the country.” - GRACE COTTER REGAN, PRESIDENT, BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL“For over two millennia, the Church’s sacred mission has kept alive the West’s precious heritage and culture, while serving as a spiritual beacon to the world. As Pioneer Institute’s new book, A Vision of Hope, makes clear, K–12 Catholic schooling helps lead the young toward these ideals, which are needed now more than ever.” - ANTHONY ESOLEN, PROFESSOR AND WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE, MAGDALEN COLLEGE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS“Pioneer Institute has done a great service by bringing together a range of leading thinkers on the vital role Catholic schools play in forming the next generation: shaping the whole human person through moral, theological, and philosophical instruction. This is an important book for the future of K–12 Catholic education and religious liberty.” - MONTSE ALVARADO, VICE PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY“Catholic schools play an enormously important role in K–12 education in America, especially in the inner city. Pioneer Institute’s new book, A Vision of Hope: Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts, shines a light on the great work Catholic schools do, the innovations they’ve made in the last 25 years, and the need to support them through school choice legislation.” - G.R. KEARNEY, AUTHOR OF MORE THAN A DREAM: THE CRISTO REY STORY: HOW ONE SCHOOL’S VISION IS CHANGING THE WORLD

A Vision of Hope: Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts

Religion & Spirituality

BEDRICK, JASON

Candal, Cara

Ardon, Ken

Chapman, Cornelius

Donovan, William

Religious Studies

Pioneer Institute

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Over the last few years, Orthodox Jewish private schools, also known as yeshivas, have been under fire by critics who fault them for providing an inadequate secular education. \nAt the heart of the yeshiva controversy lies two important interests in education: the right of the parent to choose an appropriate education, which may include values-laden religious education, and the right of each child to receive an appropriate education, as guaranteed by the state. These interests raise further questions. If preference is given to the former, how much freedom should parents have in choosing an appropriate education? If the latter, how does the state define what constitutes an appropriate education or measure the extent to which an appropriate education has been achieved? And when can--or must--the state override the wishes of parents? The purpose of this book is to explore these challenging questions. 
 Review 
This important new book brilliantly illuminates the intersection between education and religious liberty, and shows just why what happens there is crucial for the future of our free society. -- Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs\nIn this intriguing volume, Jason Bedrick, Jay Greene, and Matt Lee wrestle with the tensions that govern the relationship between faith and schooling. In an era when religious free exercise has become a lightning rod in areas ranging from health care to cake decoration, their careful exploration of whether and how the state should regulate religious schooling is both timely and clarifying. -- Frederick M. Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute\nThis is an insightful, evenhanded treatment of these schools and their regulation that serves as a powerful counterweight to policy-makers’ unconsidered assumptions of normative education. The state’s paternalistic instinct is rarely tempered by a considered examination of law, ethics, morality, or religious freedom, something this book provides. The result is as important for our understanding of the ultimate aims of education and the state’s role in regulating it as it is for its commentary on this particular case alone. -- Moshe Krakowski, director, Azrieli Masters Program\nReligious Liberty & Education 
makes a seemingly local and parochial case the occasion for a brilliant and indispensable study of public policy on education in America: The controversy over Haredi yeshivas has implications far beyond the borders of Borough Park or Crown Heights. -- Ruth Wisse, Professor Emerita, Harvard University\nNew York state education officials’ initial response to the Yeshiva controversy represents the worst of government overreach into private and religious education. The Catholic Church recognizes parents as the first educators of their children and thus they maintain the right to choose a school according to their conscience. Religious leaders’ fears of government intrusion into what and how we teach in our schools are no longer hypothetical. This wide-ranging compilation of papers represents diverse religious perspectives and utilizes experts from a wide range of professional backgrounds to reaffirm the importance of religious freedom for families and the religious institutions where they choose to educate their children. Parents, religious leaders and policy leaders, who value religious freedom, would be well-advised to read this book as a means of preparing for the many challenges to come. -- Jennifer Daniels, Associate Director for Public Policy, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Secretariat of Catholic Education 
 About the Author 
Jason Bedrick 
is director of policy for EdChoice and an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute. He previously served as a legislator in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and was an education policy research fellow at the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy.\nJay P. Greene 
 is Distinguished Professor and C

Religious Liberty and Education: A Case Study of Yeshivas vs. New York

Lee, Matthew H.

Greene Ph.D. endowed chair and head of the Department of Education Reform Univer, Jay P.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Over the last few years, Orthodox Jewish private schools, also known as yeshivas, have been under fire by a group of activists known as Young Advocates for Fair Education, run by several yeshiva graduates, who have criticized them for providing an inadequate secular education. At the heart of the yeshiva controversy lies two important interests in education: the right of the parent to choose an appropriate education, which may include values-laden religious education, and the right of each child to receive an appropriate education, as guaranteed by the state. These interests raise further questions. If preference is given to the former, how much freedom should be given to a parent in choosing an appropriate education? If the latter, how does the state define what constitutes an appropriate education or measure the extent to which an appropriate education has been achieved? And when can-or must-the state override the wishes of parents? The purpose of this book is to explore these difficult questions.

Religious Liberty and Education

Rowman Littlefield

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