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The street stops here

a year at a Catholic high school in Harlem
2008
""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."Powerful, eloquent, candid, McCloskey's account should be required reading for those who seek to remedy the academic woes of our troubled urban schools.

Society and education

1992
Continues the emphasis found in the earlier editions on delineating and assessing social changes that have major implications for education.

Early America, 1492-1812

1974
Traces the history of various minority groups in the United States from the arrival of the first settlers to the war of 1812. Includes quotations from contemporary sources.

Send these to me

Jews and other immigrants in urban America
1975

The Emergence of modern America

(1874-1917)
2014
Surveys key documents produced between 1874 and 1917, including the text of forty primary source documents, each accompanied by a critical essay.

A different mirror

a history of multicultural America
2008
A presentation of American history from a multi-cultural perspective, focusing on a broader and comparative approach to enhance the possibility of understanding and appreciating America's racial and cultural diversity.

Reproducing racism

how everyday choices lock in white advantage
2014
Discusses and analyzes how people think about race and what can be done to stop racism.

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