Catholic schools build self-discipline, concludes a Fordham study.  Students in Catholic schools were compared to public-school students from similar families and to students in non-Catholic religious and private schools. Students in Catholic schools also “were more likely to control their temper, respect others’ property, accept their fellow students’ ideas, and handle peer pressure.” The conclusion:  “Schools that value and focus on self-discipline will likely do a better j

Students at KIPP South Fulton Academy in Atlanta. “No excuses” charters are more effective ways to improve prospects for disadvantaged children than trying to create schools that integrate poor, middle-class and affluent students, concludes Amy L. Wax, a Penn law professor, writing in National Affairs. The most thought-provoking part of the essay deals with the desire to change the habits and behaviors of the poor, writes Checker Finn. Both models “assume that, to succeed in

Soon to be a man’s second wife, Ahlima feels “very fortunate” to live under Sharia law in Saudi Arabia, she writes. “I understand that some foreigners see our dress as a way of keeping women from being equal, but … I find Western women’s clothing to be horribly immodest.” The fictional 20-year-old appears on a worksheet given to seventh graders in southern Indiana. Parents are upset, reports the Courier-Journal. There’s no mention of oppression in Saudi Arabia, they complaine