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Cardus Education Survey: Phase I Report (2011)

Ray Pennings, Kathryn Wiens

August 16, 2011

Do Christian schools deliver on their promises? Cardus reports on the largest-ever sample of Christian school graduates and administrators in North America, focusing on students' spiritual formation, cultural engagement, and academic development. This report is available for purchase in PDF or book form, and and its accompanying curricula are available free of charge in digital form, and at cost in print form.

Collective Leadership

Jonathan Eckert

January 25, 2023

How can Christian schools thrive in a time when pandemic and polarization are causing school leaders and teachers to burn out? Jonathan Eckert, a Cardus Senior Fellow and education professor at Baylor University, suggests collective leadership offers a model that can sustainably bring out the best in any school's teaching team.

Future Ready

Lynn E. Swaner, Jonathan Eckert, Erik Ellefsen, Matthew H. Lee

January 3, 2023

The research in this book traces the stories of 11 Christian schools and networks that have adopted completely new mindsets to keep their schools sustainable.

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From Scarcity to Abundance (Pre-Conference Event)

March 8, 2022

The long-awaited Converge 2022 global summit starts the evening of March 8, 2022. This pre-conference event takes place that afternoon, immediately before and in addition to the general conference. This event is a panel discussion between Cardus senior fellows on current innovation and new trends in Christian school financial sustainability and growth.

The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada's Schools in Light of COVID

September 30, 2020

The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic left our schools scrambling. The sudden need for distance education thrust our kids into an experiment with online learning that we weren’t ready for. Whatever the results of that experiment prove to be, we already know the experience exposed significant cracks in education: inflexibility, inequity, and over-centralized control. So, how do we make education more resilient for the future?

Making the Public Good Case for Private Schools

October 8, 2019

A reception and panel discussion exploring independent schools and their contributions to the public good in the United States.

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Ontario Court Sides with Catholic Schools Over Public Funding Challenge

January 12, 2023

The Ontario Superior Court has reaffirmed that public funding for Catholic schools in Ontario is constitutionally protected. But as Cardus's David Hunt tells The Catholic Register, it would serve the public good to extend that funding to all religious schools.

Let School Money Follow Students

September 29, 2022

Does it make sense to fund religious and independent schools with tax dollars? David Hunt, Education Director at Cardus, answers that question with a resounding "yes" in his Financial Post commentary.

Has the Pandemic Made Us Realize Schools Are an Essential Service?

April 12, 2022

A new study from Joanna DeJong VanHof, a Cardus researcher, suggests Ontario’s pandemic experience raises a critical question about whether in-person schooling should be an essential service. Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

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