Gerald Grace is Visiting Professorial Fellow in the Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK.

"It is rare in the digital age for a volume of previously published essays to merit consideration by academic libraries. In this instance, however, Grace’s collection is a blessing. Grace is a long-time leader in the field of Catholic education, known for his intellectually honest and penetrating attempts to reconcile reasoned educational research with religious faith. This book brings together journal articles with harder-to-find book chapters that span his career. As a whole, the collection engages many key debates and tensions in the relationship between public education and religion: leadership, mission, pedagogy, high-stakes testing, market-based school reform, civic engagement, and social justice. Though much of the writing focuses on Catholic education in the UK, as a whole, this book is wide ranging and includes transnational and comparative analysis. Written in accessible prose with limited, but sufficient, footnotes, this book is indispensable for scholars and students in the US who study the relationship between religious education and the secular world."--B. Justice, Rutgers University, CHOICE, October 2016 Vol. 54 No. 2

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgements and Introduction The Catholic School: The sacred and the secular. Catholic Schools: the renewal of spiritual capital and the critique of the secular world. Renewing Spiritual Capital: an urgent priority for the future of Catholic education internationally. Catholic Schools and the Common Good: what this means in educational practice. First and Foremost the Church offers its Educational Services to the Poor: class, inequality and Catholic schooling in contemporary contexts. Educational Studies and Faith-based Schooling: moving from prejudice to evidence based argument. Making Connections for the Future Directions: taking religion seriously in the sociology of education. On the International Study of Catholic Education: why we need more systematic scholarship and research. The Dilemmas of Catholic headteachers. Realising the Mission: Catholic approaches to School Effectiveness. Faith School Leadership: a neglected sector of in-service education in the United Kingdom. The State and Catholic Schooling in England and Wales: politics, ideology and mission integrity. Mission Integrity: contemporary challenges for Catholic school teachers Christianity, Modernities and Knowledge. Catholic Social Teaching should Permeate the Catholic Secondary School Curriculum: an agenda for reform. Catholic Values and Education Policy.

Gerald Grace is Visiting Professorial Fellow in the Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK.

"It is rare in the digital age for a volume of previously published essays to merit consideration by academic libraries. In this instance, however, Grace’s collection is a blessing. Grace is a long-time leader in the field of Catholic education, known for his intellectually honest and penetrating attempts to reconcile reasoned educational research with religious faith. This book brings together journal articles with harder-to-find book chapters that span his career. As a whole, the collection engages many key debates and tensions in the relationship between public education and religion: leadership, mission, pedagogy, high-stakes testing, market-based school reform, civic engagement, and social justice. Though much of the writing focuses on Catholic education in the UK, as a whole, this book is wide ranging and includes transnational and comparative analysis. Written in accessible prose with limited, but sufficient, footnotes, this book is indispensable for scholars and students in the US who study the relationship between religious education and the secular world."--B. Justice, Rutgers University, CHOICE, October 2016 Vol. 54 No. 2

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgements and Introduction The Catholic School: The sacred and the secular. Catholic Schools: the renewal of spiritual capital and the critique of the secular world. Renewing Spiritual Capital: an urgent priority for the future of Catholic education internationally. Catholic Schools and the Common Good: what this means in educational practice. First and Foremost the Church offers its Educational Services to the Poor: class, inequality and Catholic schooling in contemporary contexts. Educational Studies and Faith-based Schooling: moving from prejudice to evidence based argument. Making Connections for the Future Directions: taking religion seriously in the sociology of education. On the International Study of Catholic Education: why we need more systematic scholarship and research. The Dilemmas of Catholic headteachers. Realising the Mission: Catholic approaches to School Effectiveness. Faith School Leadership: a neglected sector of in-service education in the United Kingdom. The State and Catholic Schooling in England and Wales: politics, ideology and mission integrity. Mission Integrity: contemporary challenges for Catholic school teachers Christianity, Modernities and Knowledge. Catholic Social Teaching should Permeate the Catholic Secondary School Curriculum: an agenda for reform. Catholic Values and Education Policy.

Gerald Grace is Visiting Professorial Fellow in the Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK.

"It is rare in the digital age for a volume of previously published essays to merit consideration by academic libraries. In this instance, however, Grace’s collection is a blessing. Grace is a long-time leader in the field of Catholic education, known for his intellectually honest and penetrating attempts to reconcile reasoned educational research with religious faith. This book brings together journal articles with harder-to-find book chapters that span his career. As a whole, the collection engages many key debates and tensions in the relationship between public education and religion: leadership, mission, pedagogy, high-stakes testing, market-based school reform, civic engagement, and social justice. Though much of the writing focuses on Catholic education in the UK, as a whole, this book is wide ranging and includes transnational and comparative analysis. Written in accessible prose with limited, but sufficient, footnotes, this book is indispensable for scholars and students in the US who study the relationship between religious education and the secular world."--B. Justice, Rutgers University, CHOICE, October 2016 Vol. 54 No. 2

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgements and Introduction The Catholic School: The sacred and the secular. Catholic Schools: the renewal of spiritual capital and the critique of the secular world. Renewing Spiritual Capital: an urgent priority for the future of Catholic education internationally. Catholic Schools and the Common Good: what this means in educational practice. First and Foremost the Church offers its Educational Services to the Poor: class, inequality and Catholic schooling in contemporary contexts. Educational Studies and Faith-based Schooling: moving from prejudice to evidence based argument. Making Connections for the Future Directions: taking religion seriously in the sociology of education. On the International Study of Catholic Education: why we need more systematic scholarship and research. The Dilemmas of Catholic headteachers. Realising the Mission: Catholic approaches to School Effectiveness. Faith School Leadership: a neglected sector of in-service education in the United Kingdom. The State and Catholic Schooling in England and Wales: politics, ideology and mission integrity. Mission Integrity: contemporary challenges for Catholic school teachers Christianity, Modernities and Knowledge. Catholic Social Teaching should Permeate the Catholic Secondary School Curriculum: an agenda for reform. Catholic Values and Education Policy.