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The Purpose of Catholic Education and the Role of the State. Catholic educational institutions should have three goals in order to be able to fulfil their primary mission to allow students to “encounter the living God who in Jesus Christ reveals his transforming love and truth” (Pope Benedict XVI).
Catholics contribute nationally in all strata of society, integrated and serving across all professions, in civic life, in charitable and voluntary endeavours and in sustaining and nurturing family life. Historically Catholic education has flourished in England and Wales.
- Higher Graduation Rates. Historically, Catholic schools tend to have higher graduation rates than public schools — a demonstration of Catholic educators’ commitment to keeping students engaged with their education.
- Higher Achievement and College Readiness. On the whole, Catholic students tend to outperform their public school peers academically. There are many ways to measure academic achievement, but whether it’s reading and math scores for elementary and middle school students or ACT scores for high school students, Catholic school students demonstrate higher achievement levels than public school students.
- Lower Student-Teacher Ratio. Another advantage of Catholic schools is that they tend to have a lower student-teacher ratio than public schools. The average student-teacher ratio for public schools in the U.S. is approximately 16-to-1, while the average student-teacher ratio for Catholic schools is 12-to-1.
- Emphasis on Religious Values. If the critical distinctions above aren’t enough, another reason to choose Catholic school over public school for your child is the added spiritual component that is absent from public education.
- Why Is Religious Education Important in Catholic Schools?
- What Is The Purpose of Religious Education in Catholic Schools?
- Do Catholic Schools Teach About Other religions?
- Why Do Catholic Schools Teach About Other religions?
- How Much of The Re Curriculum Is Given to The Teaching of Other religions?
- Who Inspects Catholic Schools?
- What Do Catholic Schools Teach About Creation and Evolution?
Religious Education is the "core of the core curriculum" in a Catholic school (Pope St John Paul II). Placing RE at the core of the curriculum in Catholic schools helps the school to fulfill its mission to educate the whole person in discerning the meaning of their existence, since "Religious Education is concerned not only with intellectual knowle...
Catholic schools, with RE at their core, exist in order to "help parents, priests and teachers to hand on the Deposit of Faith in its fullness to a new generation of young people so that they may come to understand the richness of the Catholic faith, and thereby be drawn into a deeper communion with Christ in his Church." (Religious Education Curri...
Yes, all Catholic schools are required to teach about other religions as part of the Religious Education curriculum. This is a feature of Catholic RE in all stages of a child's development, from the beginning of primary school until the end of secondary school.
Teaching about other religions is important for several reasons: 1. Learning about the religion and cultures of those who do not share the Catholic faith is one of the ways in which Catholic schools embody the call to love one’s neighbour. As the Church says, “The love for all men and women is necessarily also a love for their culture. Catholic sch...
The RECD does not prescribe how much of the curriculum ought to be devoted to the teaching of other religions, however it is clearly an expectation that it should happen in every key stage. In practice, most Catholic schools would spend approximately one half term per year on the teaching of religions other than Catholic Christianity. The requireme...
All Catholic schools and academies (including Catholic independent and special schools) are subject to a diocesan inspection (which for maintained schools is also a section 48 inspection) at least every five years. These inspections will be carried out by inspectors, licenced by the Catholic Schools Inspectorate, and appointed by the Bishop in whos...
Catholics teach that God is the creator of all things visible and invisible. By this we mean that everything that exists has its ultimate source and origin in God. Catholic schools however are not “creationist”. A “creationist” is someone who believes that the theological truths expressed in the first books of Genesis are also literal scientific an...
The Catholic Education Service (CES) represents the Bishops’ national education policy in relation to the 2300 Catholic schools, colleges and university colleges which the Church is responsible for across England and Wales.
There are 2,169 Catholic schools, academies and colleges in England and Wales educating over 850,000 pupils. The Catholic Church and the Church of England together provide one-third of all of the schools in the country and account for 98% of all schools with a religious character.
Mar 29, 2022 · The Congregation for Catholic Education releases a new “Instruction” for Catholic educational institutions focusing on the identity of Catholic schools and on current challenges.
