Beth Green
Beth Green, DPhil, is a Cardus senior fellow, education, and the provost of Tyndale University in Toronto, Ontario. Before joining Tyndale, she was the program director of education at Cardus. Dr. Green holds a DPhil in Education from Oxford University. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of faith, learning, and formation and their impact on culture and society. She is the deputy editor of the International Journal for Christianity and Education and a sought-after consultant to religious schools.
Bio last updated November 29th, 2022.
Articles by Beth Green
Reaching Millennials With Religious Education
By Beth Green with Peter Stockland
April 20, 2018
Beth Green, program director for Cardus Education, talks to Convivium’s Peter Stockland about new research showing the benefits of religious education for members of the “lost in transition” Millennial generation.
Until the Cardus Education Survey (CES) came along there wasn't an awful lot of data about the role of the school sector and education in this conversation about the religious and spiritual lives of teenagers Peter Stockland: Cardus Education has just released a research paper looking at the Millennial generation and the effect religious schooling has on helping them overcome the challenges they face in a rapidly shifting culture My questions are more about the kind of socialization that is happening in the religious school sector and the connection between school and a young person’s religious life, family life, spiritual life It's the sheer multiplication, in the Western world anyway, of options, choices, changes, particularly technological change that has such big implications for how we set young people up in good ways for mature, stable, adult life and relationships It's important because that study opened the eyes for the Church in America – for people who work in Christian formation, spirituality, and youth – to what the experience was of an entire generation that's been called the “lost generation” of Millennials And about whether we are all just jumping on the conveyor belt, or is being in an independent religious school giving you a different way of making some of those choices: to get a degree or not get a degree; to get married or not get married
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Three Essentials To Reinforce Faith
Peter Stockland with Beth Green
January 30, 2018
Beth Green, program director for Cardus Education, walks Convivium’s Peter Stockland through a new study showing why school matters as much as home and church in building a bedrock foundation for religious faith
When somebody comes through the front door in your church, they have been formed by these multiple pathways, and supporting them in their spiritual and religious maturity and growth means having some awareness at the denominational and congregational level, about specifics of what people learn about...
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Clear Numbers For School Choice
Beth Green
December 14, 2017
Beth Green, program director for Cardus Education, tells Convivium’s Peter Stockland that Angus Reid polling data released today show Canadians overwhelmingly support public funding of faith-based schooling
Convivium: Those numbers are, at least in part, a function of the representation in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario where there are very thriving Catholic school systems, aren’t they? People in those provinces see religious schools – at least Catholic schools – as a normal part, as you say, of co...
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Education’s Most Excellent Love
Beth Green, with Diane Stronks, Elco Vandergrift
October 26, 2017
As Cardus partners with the global organization EduDeo to add a prize for Excellence in Global Perspective Teaching to its annual John Rozema Teacher Excellence Awards, Education Program Director Beth Green asks veteran educators Diane Stronks and Elco Vandergrift about the difference Christian love can make in the world’s classrooms.
BG: As you both know, at Cardus Education we've been working with Christian schools in Ontario to celebrate the excellence in teaching and learning that we see in our schools here in the province, and telling the story about that practice And when EduDeo made a connection with me regarding the Walki...
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Breaking Independent School Stereotypes
Derek Allison, with Deani Van Pelt, Beth Green
October 5, 2017
Educational experts Derek J. Allison, Beth Green, and Deani Neven Van Pelt argue Toronto’s extension of its publicly funded breakfast program to independent schools is a great start to overcoming that misconception that their students are all kids with silver spoons in their mouths.
The Toronto Board of Health deserves great credit for seeking to remedy such injustice by extending access to student nutrition programs in all eligible schools, public and independent So, not only are taxpayers whose kids attend independent schools already supporting the public school system with t...
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Home Schooling’s Lessons For Education
Beth Green and Deani Van Pelt
September 13, 2017
Cardus Senior Fellow Deani Van Pelt, and Cardus Education Program Director Beth Green, contend that proponents of misperceptions about home schooling should read up on the ample evidence of its benefits.
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Three Back To School Essentials
Beth Green
August 28, 2017
As parents jot down to-do lists for their kids’ return to school, Cardus Director of Education Beth Green sets out her top priorities for educational success.
Parental voice, community participation and civic engagement are the signs of a healthy school system, and some of the best examples come from Canada’s independent schools So, whether you as parents are more anxious than your children are about the first day of school, or whether the return to routi...
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Distinctly Quebec Education
Beth Green
June 8, 2017
Analyzing data from the Cardus Education Survey, program director Beth Green fills Convivium readers in on the “distinct, positive advantages” of religious schools in Quebec. Find the link to the original research in the article.
We have found that government Catholic high schools in Quebec affect graduates’ religious involvement, but how does that look in practical terms? Controlling for factors like family background and socio-economic status, we find that graduates of these schools are more likely than graduates of other ...
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Schools Bridging Faith and Science
Beth Green
May 8, 2017
Data unearthed by the Cardus Religious Schools Initiative at the University of Notre Dame debunk popular caricatures of religious schools as sinkholes of anti-science obscurantism.
Controlling for family background and parental education, Schwartz and Sikkink found that “students at private religious schools enrol in science classes at a similar rate to public school peers in Canada In fact, when it comes to taking science courses, you’d be hard-pressed to find much difference...
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Checking the Selfish Gene
Beth Green
February 21, 2017
Cardus Program Director of Education Beth Green examines a way to inhibit the transmission of the so-called selfish gene in teenagers.
With due apologies to Richard Dawkins, research from Cardus Religious Schooling Initiative (CRSI) at Notre Dame University is giving us good reason to believe that there is a very positive religious school effect on students, which lasts well into adulthood Again, the emphasis on non-Catholic giving...
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Education Research as a Travel Guide for Wholesome Public Life
Beth Green
November 30, 2016
Johanna Admiraal, a first-year undergraduate student at Michigan’s Calvin College, is an example of a Christian school graduate who has been able to see her education journey reflected in our data When Johanna writes about the ‘failings’ of Christian education, she is talking in part about the close...
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This is no time to turn the clock back for education in Alberta
Beth Green
May 3, 2016
It’s an approach that has always been central to the progressive liberal platform in education, and Hargreaves has held Alberta up for a decade as a model of such systematic building of educational excellence ...
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Time for a national conversation on parental choice in education
Beth Green and Ben Woodfinden
January 26, 2016
They all offer varying levels of support for independent schools and are all examples of provinces striving to achieve a greater balance between access and parental choice There is no funding for independent schools in the province and so Ontario’s parents don’t have access to the same level of choi...
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A School and a Church at the Heart of a City
Beth Green
August 18, 2015
This means that we hesitate to acknowledge something really important about the model for teaching and learning offered by the rhythms of life in a cathedral school community standing at the heart of the city Clearly the graduates of this particular school have unprecedented access to social institu...
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Common Good & The Classroom
Milton Friesen, and Beth Green, Brian Dijkema
August 1, 2015
Even when closing schools seems an economic no-brainer, communities should fight back.
The Toronto District School Board comprises 560 schools that are attended by almost 290,000 students Rather than shutting down schools, good systems should be finding innovative ways to increase school choice in and out of the public system And once every three years, the wide variety of students mu...
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Put testing to the test
Beth Green
May 29, 2015
We cannot test all the things that enable progress and good development towards a flourishing life, but perhaps we can measure some of them and actually gain helpful knowledge about the health of the education system as a whole Over coffee, I thought about how the system has enough data now to make ...
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What Is Education Research For?
Beth Green
April 9, 2015
My own immigration experience suggests to me that research is intimately connected to the question, “What is anything for?” There are competing imaginations about what education research is for because there are competing imaginations about what the universe is for—or even whether it is for anything...
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What DO they teach them at these schools?
Beth Green
February 27, 2015
Let's dare to imagine what robust, critical STEM education in Christian schools might look like, so that the world of science no longer looks at them, scratches its head, and utters the words of C.S The results of the Cardus Education Survey suggest that, compared to their counterparts in Catholic a...
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Competing Stories, Inspired Conversations
Beth Green
January 22, 2015
The lens of Psalm 24 enables us to consider where present education policy and practice currently fit into the story of the kingdom of God and how they might be renewed This directly challenges the false dualism between sacred and secular, faith and reason, private and public which are still pervasi...