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"""The Street Stops Here"" offers a deeply personal and compelling account of a Catholic high school in central Harlem, where mostly disadvantaged (and often non-Catholic) African American males graduate on time and get into college. Interweaving vivid portraits of day-to-day school life with clear and evenhanded analysis, Patrick J. McCloskey takes us through an eventful year at Rice High School, as staff, students, and families make heroic efforts to prevail against society's expectations. McCloskey's riveting narrative brings into sharp relief an urgent public policy question: whether (and how) to save these schools that provide the only viable option 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."

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Powerful, eloquent, candid ... should be required reading for those who seek to remedy the academic woes of our troubled urban schools.--Publishers Weekly Should be required reading for anyone who is interested in the welfare of our kids.--Wall Street Journal A primer for urban school districts... (A) tale of educational triumph that the book rises to page after page. --San Francisco Chronicle If President Obama ... wants to know what works for kids, particularly students on the social margins, he should pick up The Street Stops Here. --The Weekly Standard Hollywood should grab this plot and ensure Denzel Washington gets the lead role. --Ottawa Citizen

Powerful, eloquent, candid ... should be required reading for those who seek to remedy the academic woes of our troubled urban schools.--Publishers Weekly Should be required reading for anyone who is interested in the welfare of our kids.--Wall Street Journal A primer for urban school districts... (A) tale of educational triumph that the book rises to page after page. --San Francisco Chronicle If President Obama ... wants to know what works for kids, particularly students on the social margins, he should pick up The Street Stops Here. --The Weekly Standard Hollywood should grab this plot and ensure Denzel Washington gets the lead role. --Ottawa Citizen

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Patrick J. McCloskey writes for many prominent publications, including City Journal, New York Times, STATS.org, Teacher Magazine and the National Post.

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