{"id":1116,"date":"2016-10-17T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmansociety.org\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2020-05-26T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T18:17:56","slug":"catholic-schools-need-catholic-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardinalnewmansociety.org\/catholic-schools-need-catholic-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Schools Need Catholic Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

The Cardinal Newman Society presents our new\u00a0Catholic Curriculum Standards<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to help Catholic educators strengthen their core mission of evangelization and forming young people for God.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Newman Society has long promoted and defended faithful Catholic education, and increasingly this work is turned toward helping schools study, embrace and implement the Church\u2019s vision for Catholic education. Our new\u00a0Standards<\/em>\u00a0are central to this work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cWe want to help, to propose a path forward that is more appropriate for Catholic schools than the\u00a0problematic Common Core<\/a>\u00a0and other secular options<\/strong>,\u201d says Dr. Dan Guernsey, director of K-12 education programs for The Cardinal Newman Society and co-author of the\u00a0Catholic Curriculum Standards<\/em>\u00a0with deputy director Dr. Denise Donohue.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cThe\u00a0Standards<\/em>\u00a0point Catholic education in the right direction<\/strong>,\u201d Dr. Donohue says. \u201cWe expect and in fact encourage more innovation, continued efforts to delve into the mission of Catholic schools and further develop authentic Catholic standards of education so that Catholic identity thrives<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

With emphasis on literature, science, history and math, the\u00a0Catholic Curriculum Standards<\/em>\u00a0incorporate Catholic insights into these curricular areas and indicate what students should be learning beyond the accumulation of useful skills and knowledge. The standards are grouped into two grade levels, K-6 and 7-12, to help educators assign or develop materials and choose subject matter that serve the unique mission of Catholic education.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

For too long, many Catholic schools have relied heavily on secular government standards like the Common Core to measure school success and on similarly focused standardized tests to measure student outcomes. These distract Catholic educators from their core mission, because they ignore key aspects of human formation and often depend on philosophies of education that are contrary to the Catholic faith. Still, Catholic schools have far outperformed public schools because of the genuine concern of their leaders and teachers for students\u2019 personal formation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Good intentions, sadly, are not enough.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Catholic education\u2019s road to renewal will be paved with genuine Catholic standards, resting on the solid foundation of Catholic teaching and the Church\u2019s vision for Catholic education.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What are standards? Consider the\u00a0grand promises<\/a>\u00a0of the Common Core State Standards: \u201cThese learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade. The standards were created to ensure that all students graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life, regardless of where they live.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Standards indicate levels of student achievement. They help determine curriculum, testing, and measures of school success. When developed rightly, they are a wonderful tool for educators and have become fundamental to American schooling.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But if standards are fundamental to modern education, then it should be obvious that Catholic schools need Catholic standards. If we measure Catholic school success by standards that do not serve the authentic mission of Catholic education, we fail to attend to Catholic identity \u2014 and eventually, our schools simply fail.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But that doesn\u2019t have to be the fate of Catholic education. It cannot be the fate of Catholic education, on which we rely for the reform of Catholic life and American society.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cEven amid growing challenges in today\u2019s society, Catholic schools and homeschool programs that embrace and celebrate the mission of Catholic education continue to thrive across the United States,\u201d write Drs. Donohue and Guernsey in their\u00a0online letter<\/a>\u00a0introducing the\u00a0Catholic Curriculum Standards<\/em>. \u201cThe Cardinal Newman Society makes this free resource available to all educators, including parents, the primary educators of children, in hopes of continuing this renewal of Catholic education for the benefit of our children, our Church, and the common good they serve.\u201d<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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