Santa Clara U to Train 100 Educators in Blended Learning

The St. Katharine Drexel School Initiative is the Diocese of San Jose’s response to the need to recommit to and bolster the levels of student academic success and to harness technology to improve student learning. The goal is to make the Diocese’s schools more effective, efficient, and sustainable. The St. Katharine Drexel School Initiative builds [...]

Families Re-Evangelized Through Catholic Schools

Catholic News Agency – By Effie Caldarola – February 3, 2013 Anchorage, Alaska, Feb 3, 2013 / (CNA) – In societies that have largely forgotten or abandoned Christianity, Catholic schools are often seen as vital tools for reintroducing faith to the wider culture. Principal Jim Bailey of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School can testify to [...]

Bishop Praises Catholic Schools for Role in Evangelizing

Catholic News Agency – January 30, 2013 Washington D.C., Jan 30, 2013 (CNA) – In a statement commemorating Catholic Schools Week, Bishop Joseph P. McFadden of Harrisburg, Pa., lauded Catholic schools for helping evangelize the nation. “It is a challenging education in an atmosphere where Jesus Christ is the center,” the chair of the U.S. [...]

Catholic Schools Week

Seek First the Kingdom – Cardinal Donald Wuerl – January 28, 2013 Five years ago this spring, Pope Benedict XVI, himself a former university professor, seemed right at home as he addressed Catholic educational leaders from across the United States who gathered in Washington, D.C., at the Catholic University of America. “Education is integral to [...]

A Mission to Save Catholic Schools

Chicago Tribune – By Manya A. Brachear – January 20, 2013 Archdiocese rolls out strategic plan to save Catholic schools The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York faces the prospect of shuttering 28 elementary schools, and Chicago’s public school system reportedly could close scores of schools. But the largest Catholic school system in the nation [...]

Catholic Schools Give America More Than Chump Change

USCCB Blog – By Sister Mary Ann Walsh, RSM – August 22, 2012 I’ve bought pizza, chaperoned dances, donated to appeals – all fundraisers for Catholic schools – and paid tuition. Which is why I am bent out of shape by an article on church finances in Aug. 18 issue of The Economist. The article [...]

Behind Every Successful Student is a Catholic School

The Gospel In the Digital Age – Cardinal Timothy Dolan – June 25, 2012 I would like to share with you two excellent columns written by New York Post’s Michael Goodwin on Catholic Schools. Here is an excerpt from his column: So it goes in New York’s tiresome public-school wars. Meanwhile, there’s another city school [...]

Graduates, Catholic Schools Look Forward With Hope

Catholic New York – June 14, 2012 Being a Cardinal has its benefits, but few compare with the privilege of being able to travel across the archdiocese and visit our Catholic schools. What a joy it is to witness, firsthand, how the spiritual leadership of our pastors and the dedication of our teachers and principals [...]

O’Meara Ferguson Acquires SchoolOne SIS Software Business

Tertium Quid – Vol. 3, Issue 2 – June 15, 2012 (printable version) O’Meara Ferguson is proud to announce its recent acquisition of SchoolOne, a 12-year-old software development, integration, and software-related services company which is a leader in providing user-friendly, data-rich, web-based information systems for the PreK-12 education market. In concert with O’Meara Ferguson’s focus [...]

(podcast) I Thirst

Near the crucifix in the chapel of each of the convents of the Missionaries of Charity is a framed parchment bearing the words, “I Thirst.” Blessed Teresa of Calcutta had a great devotion to this phrase, one of the last words of Our Lord upon the cross. In this podcast O’Meara Ferguson president and founder [...]

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