Posted on 02/11/2014 9:20:19 PM PST by Olog-hai
Students who attended Catholic high schools were approximately twice as likely as students who attended public high schools to go on and graduate from college, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.
According to the report, 61.9 percent of Catholic high school students went on to earn a bachelor’s degree or higher by the time they were 8 years out of high school. By contrast, only 31.1 percent of public school students had gone on to earn a bachelor’s degree or higher. …
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Conclusion: Close the parochial schools, they’re making the NEA look bad!
No surprise here! If I had it all to do over again, my children would all have gone to Catholic schools.
College Connection for Catholics is a good way to share our Serra Mission.
Please check out the article below. Maybe you could get a similar one in
your Catholic Paper.
Research shows that young Catholics who practice their faith in college attend Mass more often, become leaders in their parish and are more likely to consider a religious vocation. Saint Joseph’s and Marian high schools participated in the program last year. This year the Serra Club of South Bend is broadening the program to cover not only the two Catholic high schools but also Catholic students not attending Saint Joseph’s or Marian.
The Serra Club of South Bend is contacting parishes in the western end of the diocese. For more information, call your parish or contact Stephen Elek, Jr. at (574) 291-0550. The Serra mission is to pray, foster and support vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
College Connection for Catholics is helping your get started with new resources for 2012. <more...>
Parents are often dismayed when their kids go off to college and wander away from the Catholic faith. The USA Council of Serra International saw the need to connect young people with the church on campus and developed the College Connection for Catholics program to forge that bridge.<more>
Program connects college students with Catholic events (Denver Catholic Register May 2011)
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the COLLEGE CONNECTION for Catholics
but I am not surprised about the findings.....where you stress academics and perhaps wear uniforms and acutally have RULES the kids always win in the long run....
I’m not Catholic but, I think that’s probably true.
They grow up with structure.
How is it that Catholic schools can educate students with a 170 day calendar or even less, but public schools can’t educate students with 180 plus days or more? Public school officials are now yammering on about an extended school year because “There is just so much to learn!” Unfortunately, most of the day is filled with stuff that isn’t worth learning.
I asked that of my sister-in-law who teaches in a Catholic school. She said that in her school they don’t fool around.
It took me 9 years after graduation from Bishop England HS.
One of the biggest fights I ever had was with my ex over sending kids to catholic school.... She attended public as a child and wanted them to as well. I had attended both and knew there was no comparison first hand.. Fortunately I won and they are getting a far superior education.
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