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"There are two Harlems," observes Patrick J. McCloskey in this engrossing narrative. "One bursts with new hope, while the other has remained marooned on the edge of the mainstream for generations." The problem, he asserts, is the enormous difficulty urban minority children face in getting a quality education. The Street Stops Here offers a deeply personal and compelling account of this struggle in a controversial setting, a Catholic high school in central Harlem, where mostly disadvantaged (and often non-Catholic) African American young men graduate on time and get into college. Interweaving vivid portraits of day-to-day school life with clear and even-handed analysis, McCloskey takes us through an eventful year at Rice High School, as staff, students, and families make heroic efforts to prevail against society's negative expectations. McCloskey's riveting narrative brings into sharp relief an urgent public policy question: whether (and how) to save these schools, which provide the only educational hope 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.
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Brian Smoot
reviewed The Street Stops Here: A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem on May 11, 2010
The Street Stops Here
This book partially resembles "And Still We Rise" because it gives an inside look at the different teaching styles found in poor urban areas, but I appreciated it more, because instead of Compton, its about Harlem, and its more current. I didn't altogether buy into the author's salesmanship of the Catholic school model, because as the book noted, the teachers suffer under this approach. Private school teachers are under-qualified or under-paid, and this leads to a high turnover, which is terrible for the teachers and the kids.
Things that struck me--
-residing in a single parent home could be considered almost a necessary precondition to long-term welfare dependence.
-Almost 72.5% of African American children are born out of wedlock, compared to 24% of white children."
(I'm glad I read "Promises I can keep" before this, so I have a higher understanding of why THIS is happening).
-the students have difficulty seeing the casual connections between effort and outcome
-half the country's murders are committed by African-Americans, mostly males 14-24 years old. (ONLY 1.2% of the nation's population!). THe New Orleans documentary "Murder through the Eyes of a Child" is exploring this.
-"Now I understand why some students act so immaturely in class. THey weren't able to have a normal childhood...but its safe here so it comes out."
Mary McLeod Bethune's Last Will and Testament: "I leave you love; I leave you hope; I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another; I leave you a thirst for education; I leave you a respect for the use of power; I leave you faith; I leave you racial dignity; I leave you a desire to live harmoniously with your fellow man; I leave you, finally, a responsibility for your young people." I love this quote!
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