Focus [groups conducted with .students, parents, teachers, and alumni (J\/=54()) at 13 Catholic Marianist high schools provided rich insights into the experience and meaning of the education provided at these institutions. While academic excellence was a common thread woven across mectning i^iven hy both parents and teachers, students and alumni articulated a meanini^ replete with itnages of belonging. That these schools valued persons holistically (rather than solely academically) permeated most groups. Using theories of organizational culture as the foundation, the relationship between the mission und the meaning of life in these schools is discussed. V ery few large studies of Catholic high schools have been conducted. In 1993 Bryk, Lee, and Holland published their well-recognized study of seven Catholic high schools. Catholic Schools and the Common Good. Coleman, Hoffer, and Kilgore (1982) and Greeley (1982) also published national studies of Catholic high schools. Less well-known quantitative studies, such as Gamoran's 1988 comparative study of achievement among public magnet schools. Catholic schools, and private schools, also exist. For the most part these studies were attempts to examine learning outcomes among Catholic school students in comparison to students in public schools.
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