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"A harrowing, honest, and often moving story."—Andrew Greeley
"McCloskey shows how challenging it is to succeed under adverse circumstances, how tenuous are the victories, how relentless are those who wage the battle to overcome the historic disadvantages of their students."—Diane Ravitch, New York University
"Sheds light on important issues cutting across all city schools."—Joseph P. Viteritti, author of Choosing Equality
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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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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