Parents and Students

Parents – sites for parents helping students and for students.

Special Note for Parents – Tuition Assistance Application

UPDATE: All TADS applications have been processed and letters have been sent to every family receiving a SEEDS scholarship. SEEDS is pleased to announce that we are distributing over $146,000 in scholarships to 161 students from 109 families for the 2011-12 school year.

Featured Websites

Finding the Right College can be very difficult for high school students. Here are a couple of websites that help you to search for just the right college based on criteria you provide including miles from your zip code.
http://www.nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator and http://www.ucan-network.org/.

Highlights for High School is your guide to MIT courses selected specifically to help you prepare for AP exams, learn more about the skills and concepts you learned in school, and get a glimpse of what you'll soon study in college. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/students/index.htm

College searches – The free Edu Launch Pad website helps students and their parents with the entire college identification and application process: http://www.edulaunchpad.com/

Science questions answered – Scientific American: Ask the Experts invites students to ask questions on any scientific topic (including tsunamis, drug addiction, and more):
http://www.scientificamerican.com/section.cfm?id=ask-the-experts

Free e-books – Project Gutenberg offers more than 33,000 free electronic books that can be downloaded and read on a computer, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPad, Android, or other portable devices: http://www.gutenberg.org/

Why chemistry matters – This website features four Nobel laureates explaining their lives as chemists, their work, and the beauty of chemistry: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/chemistry_matters.html

Catholics Web Sites of Interest for Parents:

The Vatican – Available in six languages. This site has links to Vatican archives, saints, papal writings and much, much more. www.vatican.va

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops – This site contains an online Bible, an online Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Charter for the Protection of Young People (in four languages), movie reviews, Bishops’ statements, and more. www.usccb.org/

The California Catholic Conference – legislative documents and the California Catholic Bishops’ views about the budget and legislation. www.cacatholic.org/

The National Catholic Educational Association http://www.ncea.org/ often has information of interest to parents as well as teachers and principals. Under the “Public Policy” link in the left side, you’ll find a link to “US Supreme Court Decisions” that have affected Catholic schools. Starting with the very first decision, Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary in 1925 which declared that the child is not a mere creature of the state and that parents have a right to choose the type of education they want for their children. If you wish to explore these decisions further, Cornell University has a great website featuring historic Supreme Court decisions at http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/historic.htm

Catholic Encyclopedia – more than just an encyclopedia, this site has links to news stories about religious matters. http://www.newadvent.org/