Photo by Vika_Glitter on Pixabay This article is part of our “Children and Education Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced remote instruction, homeschooling was the fastest-growing educational choice in the United States over the past two decades. While many parents have kept…
Image by Bhargava Marripati from Pixabay This article is part of our “Children and Education Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Earlier this year, Harvard Magazine, the university’s alumni publication, interviewed Elizabeth Bartholet, professor at Harvard Law School and faculty director of its Child Advocacy Program, for an…
Image from Pixabay This article is part of our “Children and Education Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. If you’re looking for a convenient signpost to mark the beginning of the homeschooling movement in the U.S. you might choose the publication of the first ever newsletter devoted to…
Image from Unsplash This article is part of our “Children and Education Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandates states, through local school boards or education agencies, to provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to all children with disabilities. To…
Image by Sharon Mccutcheon on Unsplash This article is part of our “Children and Education Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Since time immemorial, whether as evidenced by the cave paintings from prehistoric France, the polytheistic religions of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, or the animistic belief…
Photo from Unsplash This article is part of our “Fratelli Tutti: Reflections on Pope Francis’s Call for Fraternity in Law and Religion” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. On October 3, 2020, Pope Francis took the unusual step of traveling to the birthplace, home, and tomb of his…
This article is part of our “Fratelli Tutti: Reflections on Pope Francis’s Call for Fraternity in Law and Religion” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. On October 3, 2020, the vigil of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis issued his third papal encyclical. The title,…
Photo by Catherine Dionne from Unsplash This article is part of our “Fratelli Tutti: Reflections on Pope Francis’s Call for Fraternity in Law and Religion” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The modern history of humanity is driven by several contradictions, one of them being the conflict between…
Photo from Pixabay This article is part of our “Fratelli Tutti: Reflections on Pope Francis’s Call for Fraternity in Law and Religion” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Pope Francis’s recent encyclical is the second of his major writings inspired directly by his papal namesake, St. Francis of…
Image from Pixabay This article is part of our “Fratelli Tutti: Reflections on Pope Francis’s Call for Fraternity in Law and Religion” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The post-9/11 world was marked by an urgent need to theorize about the relationship between religion and violence, but at…