Overview

With its revolutionary work-study program and focus on character development, the Cristo Rey network’s values-based education model has presented a new vision in school administration and reinvented urban education.   In Putting Education to Work, the inspiring Cristo Rey story is told from its humble beginnings in an inner city Chicago neighborhood to its current network of twenty-eight participating schools and 9,000 students in underserved communities across the nation, boasting an unprecedented 100 percent college acceptance rate. Through amazing stories of hardship and transformation, the effectiveness of the Cristo Rey method is brought to life, embodied by lifelong learners who can now reimagine their futures, unleash their inner potential, and fulfill their hopes and dreams by preparing for success in college and in life.  

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9780062288028

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The Cristo Rey story is one of the greatest success stories of the Jesuits, and indeed the Catholic Church, in the United States in the last 25 years. -- James Martin, SJ, Bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything

It seems the real purpose of education has been recovered here. The author has told it well, interspersing personal stories among this readable chronicle. --Mark M. Wilkins, St. Anthony's Messenger

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Megan Sweas is a journalist who writes about social and economic justice issues and world religions. She previously was an editor at U.S. Catholic magazine. Sweas was an Annenberg Fellow at the University of Southern California, where she earned a master's degree in specialized journalism. She graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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