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May 8, 2007
Save the Catholic Schools!
A non-Catholic's call to save the urban Catholic schools in City Journal. The article centers on Rice High School in Harlem but certainly doesn't stop there. Here's a bit:
We almost lost Harlem’s Rice High School a few years ago. And what a defeat that would have been for all New Yorkers, Catholic and non-Catholic alike. For the past three decades, Rice has rescued at-risk African-American boys and turned them into responsible men who go on to college and then give back to the community. Yet despite this academic success, Rice almost succumbed to the demographic changes and financial pressures that have led to the closing of thousands of excellent inner-city Catholic schools and needlessly deepened the nation’s urban-education crisis.
Read it all - it's a great article about what can be done - but Stern doesn't skirt the hard issues - money, changes in religious orders, demographic shifts, competition from the public schools.
via Eduwonk, one of my daily reads.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 8, 2007 7:29 AM