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McCloskey, Patrick J. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2010
Catholic schools achieved the greatest social transformation in American history, pulling impoverished Irish immigrants out of the underclass and into the working and middle classes, writes Patrick McCloskey, author of The Street Stops Here--an account of a year in the life of a Catholic school in Harlem. These schools now provide a lifeline for…
Descriptors: Catholics, Immigrants, Social Change, United States History