Miracle on High Street : the rise, fall, and resurrection of St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J. /

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Situated just outside downtown Newark, St. Benedict's is a model of successful inner-city school, with 95% of its graduates going on to college. 'Miracle on High Street' is the story of how the monks of St. Benedict's transformed their venerable yet outdated school to become a th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCabe, Thomas Allan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
St. Benedict's Preparatory School (Newark, N.J.) > History.
St. Benedict's Preparatory School (Newark, N.J.)
Preparatory schools > New Jersey > Newark > History.
Minorities > Education (Secondary) > New Jersey > Newark > History.
Preparatory schools > New Jersey > Newark > Histoire.
Minorités > Enseignement secondaire > New Jersey > Newark > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Minorities > Education (Secondary)
Preparatory schools
New Jersey > Newark
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Downtown Monks and the Miracle on High Street
  • Newark's Forgotten Riot
  • "Necessary, Useful, and Beautiful": Founding Fathers and a Catholic Day College, 1868-1900
  • The Making of a Modern Catholic Prep School, 1900-1926
  • St. Benedict's Prep from Depression to War, 1926-1945
  • The Duke, Divine Comedy, and Discipline at St. Benedict's Prep
  • Benedict's Hates a Quitter: Athletics at a Catholic Prep School
  • "He Was Afraid of the City": Abbot Patrick, the Monastic Family, and Postwar Newark, 1945--1967
  • "Camelot Is Dead": The Newark Riots and the Closing of St. Benedict' Prep, 1967-1972
  • "A Possible School": The Resurrection of St. Benedict's Prep, 1972-1977
  • The Headmaster and the Street, 1977-1986
  • Conclusion.

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