The Street Stops Here – A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem, George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies

The Street Stops Here A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies

The Street Stops Here offers a deeply personal and compelling account of a Catholic high school in central Harlem, where mostly disadvantaged (and often non-Catholic) African American males graduate on time and get into college. Interweaving vivid portraits of day-to-day school life with clear and evenhanded analysis, Patrick J. McCloskey takes us through an eventful year at Rice High School, as staff, students, and families make heroic efforts to prevail against society's expectations. McCloskey's riveting narrative brings into sharp relief an urgent public policy question: whether (and how) to save these schools that provide the only viable option for thousands of poor and working-class students–and thus fulfill a crucial public mandate. Just as significantly, The Street Stops Here offers invaluable lessons for low-performing urban public schools.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Education for Educators
'The Street Stops Here' is McCloskey's fascinating journalistic account of his year at Rice Catholic High School in Harlem. As a piece of academic writing, it is generous and accessible. The casual reader, looking for a good romp, will find an engrossing narrative about the teachers and students of Rice, a story that stands on its own as novelistic entertainment; the serious-minded reader, looking for a serious-minded book, will find an acute analysis of urban education and a sobering digest of the challenges faced by New York's private high schools. It is McCloskey's fine, intelligent writing that renders the book enjoyable as both expos

Sphere: Related Content

Related posts:

1. The Madonna of 115th Street – Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, Second Edition
2. Buying Cardinal Dougherty High School
3. Wis. High School Holds Graduation in Church
4. Banning High School Graduation Ceremonies from Church
5. Onlookers Do Not Report Crime at California High School
6. High School Bible Course Deliberated in Kentucky
7. PRESS RELEASE: Texas School District Has No Right To Force Native American Boy To Cut Hair, Says Americans United
8. Scenes from Rally to Save Catholic School
9. Atheist T-Shirt Banned from High School Yearbook
10. The Man of Earth on the Catholic School "Boot"

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Leave a Reply

Click here to cancel reply.

Name (required)

Mail (will not be published) (required)

IMPORTANT NOTE: We welcome and encourage comments. However, we are receiving many 'junk comments' from people looking for back links. As of noon, November 16, 2009, comment submission authors must use a name. For example, names such as 'Payday Loans' or 'Home Accessories' will be deleted. You may continue to link to your website, but we want names (pen names are all right). Additionally, only substantive comments that have to do with the content of the article will be accepted. Comments such as 'Nice post, thanks,' will be deleted. Comments that link to pornographic or hate sites will also be deleted.

Website

By submitting a comment here you grant this site a perpetual license to reproduce your words and name/web site in attribution. While we offer immediate approval of comments that are not screened as spam, we reserve the right to delete your comment pursuant to the site's terms, conditions and policies. GOD DISCUSSION RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DELETE OR EDIT COMMENTS FOR ANY REASON, WITHOUT NOTICE, including without limitation grammar errors, "trolling" and spamming.

Security Code: