The Catholic School: Avenue to Authenticity

Mentoring in a Catholic High School: The Movement to Receive

This paper explores the dynamics that underlie the process of mentoring high-school students, with Catholic Junior College in Singapore as a site of practice. Using Luke’s journey narrative of Jesus’ walk with the two disciples to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35), a Christological framework is proposed that construes the relational practice of mentoring as involving four movements: receiving, blessing, b...

Catholic schools or school quality? The effects of Catholic schools on labor market outcomes

This paper studies the effects of attending a Catholic high school on students’ labor market outcomes. Using data from theWisconsin Longitudinal Study, I find that Catholic schooling is significantly associatedwith higherwages over the careers even after taking into account possible selection into Catholic schools with instruments. Using matched school quality data for public and Catholic schoo...

The Catholic School as a Courtyard of the Gentiles

The Leadership Challenge: Preparing and Developing Catholic School Principals

"Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School": Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries

“Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School”: Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even...