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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826431303321
• Autore: McCloskey Patrick
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-282-77237-6; 9786612772375; 0-520-94208-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (490 p.)
• Collana: George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
• Disciplina: 371.071/27471
• Soggetti: Catholic high schools - New York (State) - New York; African Americans - Education (Secondary) - New York (State) - New York; Minorities - Education (Secondary) - New York (State) - New York; Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-439) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.