Sentences with phrase «catholic school closures»

With a particular emphasis on Catholic school closures, Lost Classroom, Lost Community examines the implications of these dramatic shifts in the urban educational landscape.

Over the past decade, their home town of Chicago led the nation in Catholic school closures — 63.

Catholic school closures precede elevated levels of crime and disorder and suppressed levels of social cohesion.

neighborhoods experiencing a Catholic school closure during the relevant time period were more disorderly, and less socially cohesive, than those that did not.»

Families and children become the victims of every Catholic school closure.

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First, by ignoring the closure of urban Catholic schools, we have not only allowed high - quality seats to disappear, we've also allowed the further deterioration of the threadbare social fabric of fraying communities.

Brinig and Garnett assume Catholic schools» effectiveness with lower - income inner - city children and take up a different story: the effect of school closures on the quality of the social life in their surrounding neighborhoods.

Indeed, I've argued in many places that the closure of excellent inner - city Catholic schools is terrible for such communities.

As he sees it, urban Catholic - school closures dump students back into a system that is ill - prepared to educate them, a system that in many large U.S. cities awards diplomas to only half its high school students.

«In this carefully researched book that picks up where James Coleman and others have left off, Brinig and Garnett demonstrate that [Catholic school] closures often have detrimental effects on the communities where the schools once resided, beyond the obvious loss of their educational assets....

Last year, seven Catholic schools in Washington were converted into charters, and the Dioceses of Brooklyn and Cleveland are considering another round of school closures.

Colleges and universities that have lower academic rankings in publications like The Princeton Review and The Wall Street Journal, including Catholic schools, could lead to an increase in the number of closures.

In addition to following the lead of New York City public schools, Catholic schools in the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island, may find it necessary to make closure decisions based on local situations.

As a result of these closures, more than 650,000 fewer children enjoy the education and formation advantages of a Catholic school.

Catholic schools throughout the Archdiocese of New York utilize the IRIS Alert System to notify parents directly about delayed openings and closures due to weather.