Word: catholicization
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The movie, which is due to open May 6, has already stirred some controversy. Five scholars of various faiths, given a purloined copy of the script by the New York Times, reached opposite and predictable conclusions. The Catholic thought it was fair; the Muslim cried foul. Whatever the truth of...
Until Mark Latham came along. The Labor Party leader's pitch for government includes a pledge to redirect money going to Australia's wealthiest schools toward more needy ones, with Catholic schools set to receive the bulk of it. To many people, this makes Latham a hero. Others are appalled...
It wasn't until the 1960s that Prime Minister Robert Menzies began sending a little public money the way of independent schools as one-off grants for new labs and libraries; in the 1970s Latham's mentor, Gough Whitlam, courting the Catholic vote, introduced recurrent funding to independent schools based...
Sparked by uprisings and protests around the world in the late 1960s, movements throughout Mexico began calling on the government to fulfill the commitments of the Mexican Revolution by reducing poverty and inequality and achieving greater level of democracy. These movements, however, were initially ineffective because the government simply repressed...
We like to think of our schools as havens of innocence, free spaces in which children can explore a world untouched by harsh reality. But across Europe these days, more and more of those explorations are being closely monitored. At the Portchester School in Bournemouth, a town with one of...