Friday, February 20, 2009
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.Product Details
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Keeping the challenges of urban education in mind, McCloskey, who writes for the New York Times, monitors a year of studies at a Catholic high school in Harlem in his debut book, revealing the soaring cost of academically training young poor and non-Catholic black males for graduation and college. The subject of the yearlong investigation is Rice High School, with principal Orlando Gober, who keeps the street culture at bay while pursuing educational excellence and a high moral foundation. With the highest black student population in the regional diocese, Gober makes no excuses for how schools have failed: parents and teachers made excuses, which crippled their willpower.... People have to be held responsible for what they do. It is illuminating to see the struggles and triumphs of a school day where students feud, teachers jockey for power, and administrative control must be maintained at all costs. Powerful, eloquent, candid, McCloskey's account should be required reading for those who seek to remedy the academic woes of our troubled urban schools. (Jan.)
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Review
Powerful, eloquent, candid ... should be required reading for those who seek to remedy the academic woes of our troubled urban schools.--Publishers Weekly Should be required reading for anyone who is interested in the welfare of our kids.--Wall Street Journal " A primer for urban school districts... (A) tale of educational triumph that the book rises to page after page."--San Francisco Chronicle
Review
Powerful, eloquent, candid . . . should be required reading for those who seek to remedy the academic woes of our troubled urban schools.--Publishers Weekly
Should be required reading for anyone who is interested in the welfare of our kids.--Wall Street Journal
" A primer for urban school districts. . . (A) tale of educational triumph that the book rises to page after page."--San Francisco Chronicle
Customer Reviews
Great Book
This book makes excellent use of the narrative form to investigate and chronicle the successes and failures of inner-city education in New York City. While the themes concern neutral, generally applicable principles, the writer uses a gripping story to bring these principles to life. I strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in either education or New York City. We must reform our school systems in order to compete in the global marketplace and this book can add much to the debates to come!
Good on history and social issues
This book has a lot in it about Irish American history, various New York ethnic and religious histories, all intertwined with present day problems concerning the struggling underclass.
Very insightful on education and problems in the inner-city
I recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of education, Catholicism, and New York. Lots of good insight into contemporary problems of education in the inner city.
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