The street stops here : a year at a Catholic high school in Harlem / Patrick J. McCloskey ; foreword by Samuel G. Freedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCloskey, Patrick.

Series:

George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic high schools--New York (State)--New York.

Catholic high schools.

African Americans--Education (Secondary)--New York (State)--New York.

African Americans.

Minorities--Education (Secondary)--New York (State)--New York.

Minorities.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (490 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-one

Chapter Twenty-two

Chapter Twenty-three

Chapter Twenty-four

Chapter Twenty-five

Chapter Twenty-six

Chapter Twenty-seven

Chapter Twenty-eight

Chapter Twenty-nine

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-439) and index.

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ISBN:

9786612772375

9781282772373

1282772376

9780520942080

0520942086

OCLC:

773565012