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Catechism lessons: do Catholic schools have the answers?
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Newsweek
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September 23, 1996
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Catholic schools turn out better students than public schools because of the emphasis that all students take the same academic courses and an environment that promotes a social bond. Such principles are needed in public schools, such as in New York, NY, rather than sending students to Catholic schools.
Do Catholic schools have the answers?
NEW YORK CITY'S TROUBLED Public schools reopened this month, thousands of students arrived to find they had no seats. There were stories of classes meeting in locker rooms and counselors working out of closets. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani responded with what seemed like a radical proposal: transfer some of the city's 91,000 surplus students to Roman ...
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