Abstract
Catholic schools achieved the greatest social transformation in American history, pulling impoverished Irish immigrants out of the underclass and into the working and middle classes, writes Patrick McCloskey, author of The Street Stops Here —an account of a year in the life of a Catholic school in Harlem. These schools now provide a lifeline for disadvantaged, non-Catholic minorities in urban America, boosting graduation and college acceptance rates, and outperforming many equivalent public schools. But they are also disappearing from the very neighborhoods that need them most. McCloskey reports on how one diocese has bucked the trend, what it means to one family, and what it could mean for America.
Highlights
Catholic schools achieved the greatest social transformation in American history, pulling impoverished Irish immigrants out of the underclass and into the working and middle classes, writes Patrick McCloskey, author of The Street Stops Here—an account of a year in the life of a Catholic school in Harlem
McKay, who is Black, had marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. shortly before his assassination 40 years ago; and with the first African American president who started his career as a lawyer, everything seemed possible
The school offers more than feel-good nostrums to the mostly non-Catholic African American children who come from some of the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods in the country: St
Summary
Catholic schools achieved the greatest social transformation in American history, pulling impoverished Irish immigrants out of the underclass and into the working and middle classes, writes Patrick McCloskey, author of The Street Stops Here—an account of a year in the life of a Catholic school in Harlem. In Memphis, as across the country, Catholic schools more than double the high school graduation rates for disadvantaged minority students, compared with peers in the public system, to over 95%
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