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

• Autore: McCloskey Patrick
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (490 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.071/27471
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The street stops here
• ISBN: 1-282-77237-6; 9786612772375; 0-520-94208-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826431303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II