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CONTENTS Volume CXX, Number 7 COMMONWEAL Correspondence 2 Editorials 3 Claire...
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...But in a society already deeply fractured by struggles over It was Franz Rosenzweig (d...
...Another Kelley-Virginia, formerly of Hot Springs, Patrick F. Kelly points out (also in this issue, p.6) that Arkansas-has recently made that point...
...By 1988, those figures had shiftCommonweal, [ISSN 0010-3330] A Review of ed dramatically: women made up 54 percent of the total and minorities 18 percent...
...Inner-city Catholic schools such as Mr...
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...CONTENTS Volume CXX, Number 7 COMMONWEAL Correspondence 2 Editorials 3 Claire Huchet-Bishop: Edward S. Skillin 4 Editor's notebook: Paul Baumann 5 Schools worthy of kids: Patrick F. Kelly 6 Pennies for heaven: Joseph Claude Harris 8 Count on Mom: Katharine Byrne 9 Gimme shelter: Abigail McCarthy 10 Searching for the soap: David R. Carlin, Jr...
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...That study called for smaller schools she says...
...sense," he writes, "that many of our students are fated to...
...11 Catholic higher education: What happened...
...Kenneth L. Woodward 13 Only cohere All is not lost: Michael J. Hunt 18 Screen: Richard Alleva 21 mericans generally agree that something substantial must be Poetry: Barbara Van Noord 22 done, and fast, about the deficit, the health-care system, and Stage: Gerald Weales 24 A% jobs...
...higher education has shown an organic-like capaciAdvertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor Publisher: Edward S. Skillin ty to adapt and include...
...To help rem- with students...
...tensive series of book reviews which ran uninterrupted for Thanks in part to her How Catholics Look at Jews (Paulist a number of the magazine's weekly issues, all without tnon- Press, 1974), so were anti-Semitic passages in Catholic catetary compensation on our part...
...Together, busiPancreas?: Christopher F. Koller 34 ness, education, and government should develop apprenticeship programs, and a naDemocracy: Patrick J. Deneen 35 tional service program should be initiated that would make college loans available Cry Me a River: Bethe Dufresne 37 to young Americans but challenge them to give something back to their country...
...higher education-with its decentralization, its combination of public and priand monthly July and August, by Commonweal Foundation, 15 Dutch St., New York, N.Y...
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...Oakley sees a future clouded by ten11 Graffam Rd., So...
...His article underscores findings of a 1989 Carnegie School because it was such a fine school: "I will never forget Corporation study on preparing American youngsters for the the nuns for as long as I live for giving him such a good start," twenty-first century...
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...argues that only by reap- It was premised on the reawakening of Judaism as a spiritual propriating spiritual values such as humility, self-denial, char- power ("the pivot of our lives"), and combined study, service, ity, friendship, and justice-values that, Schwehn argues, best and worship...
...She was the widow of the dis- Bishop's valiant and tireless struggle against Christian antitinguished concert pianist, Frank Bishop, who died in 1944 Semitism...
...It all began in 1940 with the first of an ex- Italian textbooks were removed as the result of her efforts...
...Over the years, in this country and in her beloved No wonder it has been a cherished privilege for me to France, Claire rang up a remarkable array of achievements...
...But there is a close runner-up in the Great Anxiety Sweepstakes: the deterioration of education at all levels...
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...1929), the great teacher of Judaism power, wealth, and knowledge, not to mention over interpre- in the modern secular world, who convinced Jews that if they tations of freedom and responsibility, what can assure such ci- were to maintain their tradition, "a new learning" had to be born...
...But all build-in the great "interpretive disagreements and ideological of this is built around the fundamental values Catholic schools conflicts" of the times in an atmosphere distinguished for its seek to transmit, values based on the Catholic religious her"openness, its rationality, its civility, its generosity of spirit...
...Rosenzweig directed the Free Jewish House of Learning in In his review of Mark R. Schwehn's Exiles from Eden (p...
...ed publishing what turned out to be an impressive variety Claire urged the American Jewish Committee to press of her social, religious, and literary articles and reviews the Catholic church for reform in this matter at Vatican stretching over many years (at our meager authors' rates...
...And she served as president of the International But we happily did better by Claire Bishop when she Council of Christians and Jews and of the Jewish-Christian served as our Children's Book Editor from 1952 to 1964...
...Paul Kennedy notes in Preparing for the Twenty-First Century (Random Associate Editor: Paul Baumann House), that there is an astounding correlation among the rise in literacy, Gross Production Editor: Jacqueline Dowdell National Product, and life-expectancy rates: as a nation's educational level advances, Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt so does its overall quality of life...
...Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, is According to Francis Oakley (Community of Learning, Oxford University Press), published biweekly except Christmas/New Year's...
...Kelly rightly points out, in the whole "experienced a failure of nerve or a loss of rootedness in their society...
...religious traditions...
...POSTMASTER: Send address changes to eral arts, and the incoherence of "cafeteria counter" curriculums...
...A functioning democracy depends on the abiliin the Cold War: Michael Lavelle 39 ty of its citizenry to involve themselves intelligently in the task of government...
...Lee Siegel 30 In his State of the Union address, President Bill Clinton called for greater responsibility What It Means to Be an American: on the part of students, teachers, parents, and schools...
...He nity, and be assigned an adult adviser with "the time to talk would still get a good start...
...Kelly from the where students would work together, volunteer in the commu- Bronx would know, Bill Clinton would have lay teachers...
...have long known and admired Claire Bishop in person...
...The fruits of renewal in says recovering a sense of purpose and vocation is especially Catholic education will be felt not only in the Catholic comurgent at a time when Catholic colleges and universities have munity, however, but as Mr...
...Claire was also the author of some thirty books Claire Huchel-Bishop for both children and adults, including works which won her a number of important literary and spiritual awards Long a valued friend and generous supporter and citations...
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...Fellowship in France...
...in fact, it does Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan much more...
...And, as if echoing Kenneth L. Woodward's article Today, such a challenge faces Catholicism in general and on the decline of Catholic higher education (p...
...was the impassioning motivation of her extremely active Claire's substantial collaboration with Commonweal is later years...
...maneuver among radically divergent theories of knowledge without being fully conscious of doing so, Commonweal 9 April 1993: and without getting adequate help in the process...
...Only with such a program, thought Rosenzweig, flourish within the great religious traditions-will the conver- would Judaism once again become the source of a living consation among competing and sometimes rival interests be at all text capable of revitalizing Jewish culture...
...vate institutions, and its extraordinary responsiveness to shifting social needs-has Telephone: (212) 732-0800...
...children in France, while in the 1930s, she was in charge of the children's reading room at the New York Public Library...
...Today, as Mr...
...He reminded Congress that R. Bruce Douglass 32 "an average eighteen-year-old today will change jobs seven times in a lifetime" and If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a therefore "lifelong learning" must become the goal of all Americans...
...It is a truism to say that education empowers...
...Frankfurt, which became a model for Jewish adult education...
...The Final Revolution/The Christian Church Worthy policy goals to be sure...
...She told the Wall Street Catholic education is particularly vital today where it is most Journal (January 6, 1993), that in 1953 she enrolled her sevenendangered: on the primary and secondary levels in our inner year-old son, Bill, in the second grade at Saint John's Catholic cities...
...Kelly's edy this situation, Oakley calls for a greater measure of coher- in the South Bronx provide some of these and give their charges ence in the undergraduate curriculum, and a pedagogy that will a sense of belonging that enhances their ability to learn...
...26 schools rocked by random violence and dogged by low test scores and high dropout Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: rates...
...BOOKS The problems are manifold and pressing: whole rural school Exiles from Eden: districts faced with shutdowns for lack of funds...
...a loss of coherence in higher education coupled with skyrocketing tuition costs: Carl L. Bankston III 28 in the past decade, a 120 percent tuition increase in public institutions and 150 perDouble Agent/Politics by Other Means: cent in private...
...vility and generosity of spirit...
...In 1924 she founded L'Heure Joveuse, the first library for EDWARD S. SKILLIN 4: 9 April 1993 Commonweal...
...In 1960, only 37 percent of higher-education students were women and only 4 percent were from minorities...
...of Commonweal, Claire Huchet-Bishop died in Paris on But, in a sense, I believe that all these pale before Claire March 11, at the age of 94...
...But Against the Nations: Michael O. Garvey 41 just as important for democracy's well-being is education's capacity to draw into the social process those segments of society otherwise or previously excluded which STAFF help to regenerate it...
...Although she was frail of health, this great cause as a result of an auto accident...
...I have the uneasy Commonweal, 15 Dutch St...
...Anti-Semitic references in French, Spanish, and a colorful story...
...Things have changed...
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