Author: Thomas C. Hunt Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers ISBN: 9781433117787 Category : Catholic schools Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Urban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times is a sequel to a 2010 work with the similar title, Urban Catholic Education: Tales of Twelve American Cities. Together, these works explore the historical contours of the Catholic parochial school movement in America's divergent urban centers from colonial times to the present. The first volume covers the years of growth and expansion up to 1970 and the second volume continues the story and discusses the years of decline and retrenchment over the past forty years. In this second volume, ten scholars - many affiliated with Catholic schools and universities - address the recent history of parish schools in as many cities across the country. Not only do the essays address common themes, they also articulate the elements that make Catholic education distinctive in each city. The book is a valuable touchstone for Catholic educators and scholars who work in and for a national Catholic educational establishment; that establishment includes 238 colleges and universities and several thousand Catholic high schools among other institutions.
Author: Margaret F. Brinig Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022612214X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 215
Book Description
In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools—public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations—have opened, many in urban areas. With a particular emphasis on Catholic school closures, Lost Classroom, Lost Community examines the implications of these dramatic shifts in the urban educational landscape. More than just educational institutions, Catholic schools promote the development of social capital—the social networks and mutual trust that form the foundation of safe and cohesive communities. Drawing on data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods and crime reports collected at the police beat or census tract level in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, Margaret F. Brinig and Nicole Stelle Garnett demonstrate that the loss of Catholic schools triggers disorder, crime, and an overall decline in community cohesiveness, and suggest that new charter schools fail to fill the gaps left behind. This book shows that the closing of Catholic schools harms the very communities they were created to bring together and serve, and it will have vital implications for both education and policing policy debates.
Author: Anthony S. BRYK Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674029038 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 417
Book Description
The authors examine a broad range of Catholic high schools to determine whether or not students are better educated in these schools than they are in public schools. They find that the Catholic schools do have an independent effect on achievement, especially in reducing disparities between disadvantaged and privileged students. The Catholic school of today, they show, is informed by a vision, similar to that of John Dewey, of the school as a community committed to democratic education and the common good of all students.
Author: Gerald Grace Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134545207 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 301
Book Description
In this ground-breaking book, Gerald Grace addresses the dilemmas facing Catholic education in an increasingly secular and consumer-driven culture. Theory and original research drawn from interviews with Catholic headts are combined.
Author: Patrick McCloskey Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520267974 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 490
Book Description
"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
Author: Thomas G. Welsh Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 0739165941 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 341
Book Description
Closing Chapters attempts to explain the disintegration of urban parochial schools in Youngstown, Ohio, a onetime industrial center that lost all but one of its eighteen Catholic parochial elementary schools between 1960 and 2006. Through this examination of Youngstown, Welsh sheds light on a significant national phenomenon: the fragmentation of American Catholic identity.
Author: Martin K. Scanlan Publisher: ISBN: 9781682534007 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Education provides a much-needed blueprint for how school leaders can leverage the power of collaborative learning to create more culturally and linguistically responsive schools. The book describes an innovative network of twenty preK-8 schools located across the United States that strive to address the barriers to inclusive education. The book shows how these schools transformed to better serve their diverse, multilingual communities by adopting a two-way immersion model with the help of local faculty and other experts in bilingual education serving as mentors. The editors draw key lessons from this network for other leaders and argue for increased attention to culturally and linguistically responsive schooling that builds on students' sociocultural competence, cultivates an appreciation and proficiency in multiple languages, and promotes high levels of academic achievement. "This highly engaging book offers a timely and insightful look into the positive transformations that result from building coalitions and networks across and within schools to enact culturally and linguistically responsive education for all students. Demographic trends call for educational leaders to not only value and celebrate the diversity of students and their families, but to go further by breaking from monolingual and monocultural mind-sets. Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Education expertly shows us how this is done." --Sonia W. Soltero, professor and chair, Department of Leadership, Language, and Curriculum, College of Education, DePaul University Martin Scanlan is an associate professor in educational leadership at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. Cristina Hunter is the associate director of research initiatives for the Roche Center for Catholic Education. Elizabeth R. Howard is an associate professor of bilingual education in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut.
Author: Gerald Grace Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1402057768 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 906
Book Description
Knowledge of Catholic educational scholarship and research has been largely confined to specific national settings. Now is the time to bring together this scholarship. This is the first international handbook on Catholic educational scholarship and research. The unifying theme of the Handbook is ‘Catholic Education: challenges and responses’ in a number of international settings. In addition to analyzing the largest faith-based educational system worldwide, the book also critically examines contemporary issues such as church-state relations and the impact of secularization and globalization.
Author: Thomas C. Hunt
Author: Margaret F. Brinig
Author: Thomas C. Hunt
Author: Anthony S. BRYK
Author: Gerald Grace
Author: Patrick McCloskey
Author: Thomas G. Welsh
Author: James W. Sanders
Author: Martin K. Scanlan
Author: Gerald Grace