The 'Eliting' of the Common American Catholic School and the National Education Crisis

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 16-23

  Baker, David P ^a   Riordan, Cornelius ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PROVIDENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

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References (26)

1. David Baker. "The Politics of American Catholic School Expansion, 1870-1920," in Bruce Fuller and Richard Rubinson, eds., The Political Construetion of Education (New York: Praeger, 1992); and David Baker, "Schooling All of the Masses: Reconsidering Origins of American Schooling in the Post Bellum Era." unpublished paper, Penn State University, 1997.
2. David Baker. "The Politics of American Catholic School Expansion, 1870-1920," in Bruce Fuller and Richard Rubinson, eds., The Political Construetion of Education (New York: Praeger, 1992); and David Baker, "Schooling All of the Masses: Reconsidering Origins of American Schooling in the Post Bellum Era." unpublished paper, Penn State University, 1997.
3. For a description of the overall project, see James Youniss, John Convey, and David Baker, "Catholic Schools in a Changing Society," Catholic Education, vol. 1, 1997, pp. 98-103.
4. Mary Ellen Schaub and David Baker, Serving American Catholic Children and Youth: A Diocesan-Level Study of PREP and Catholic School Enrollments and Unserved Children (Washington, D.C.: Life Cycle Institute, Catholic University of America, 1993).
5. Jeff McLellan and David Baker, Enrollment Trends in Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools (Washington, D.C.: Life Cycle Institute, Catholic University of America, 1997).
6. Sheila Nelson, "Black Catholic Schools in InnerCity Chicago: Forging a Path to the Future," paper commissioned by the Future of Catholic Schools Project, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1997.
7. Cornelius Riordan, "Trends in Student Demography in Catholic Secondary Schools," paper commissioned by the Future of Catholic Schools Project, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1997.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Anne Hafner et al., A Profile of the American Eighth-Grader: NELS:88 Student Descriptive Summary (Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, 1990).
12. David Baker et al., How Different, How Similar? Comparing Organizational Qualities of American Public and Private Secondary Schools (Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, NCES: 96-322, 1996).
13. Mary Ellen Schaub, "A Profile of American Cath- olic School Teachers: A Comparative Analysis of Catholic and Public Faculties," paper commissioned by the Future of Catholic Schools Project, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1997.
14. David Tyack and Larry Cuban, Tinkering Towards Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995).
15. Richard Hofstader, Ami-intellectualism in American Life (New York: Knopf, 1963).
16. John Ellis, "American Catholics and the Intellectual Life," Thought, vol. 30, 1955, pp. 351-88.
17. William Brown and Andrew Greeley, Can Catholic Schools Survive? (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1970).
18. See also John Chubb and Terry Moe, Politics, Markets, and America's Schools (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1990).
19. James S. Coleman, Thomas Hoffer, and Sally Kilgore, High School Achievement: Public, Catholic, and Private Schools Compared (New York: Basic Books, 1982); and James S. Coleman and Thomas Hoffer, Public and Private High Schools: The Impact of Communities (New York: Basic Books, 1987).
20. James S. Coleman, Thomas Hoffer, and Sally Kilgore, High School Achievement: Public, Catholic, and Private Schools Compared (New York: Basic Books, 1982); and James S. Coleman and Thomas Hoffer, Public and Private High Schools: The Impact of Communities (New York: Basic Books, 1987).
21. Andrew Greeley, "Catholic Schools: A Golden Twilight?," America, 11 February 1989, pp. 106-18.
22. See, for example, Chubb and Moe, op. cit.
23. Andrew M. Greeley, Catholic Schools and Minority Students (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1982).
24. For this position, see Anthony Bryk, Valerie Lee, and Peter Holland, Catholic Schools and the Common Good (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993).
25. Kathryn S. Schiller, "The Catholic School Advantage: A Continuing Debate," in James Cibulka, ed., Educational Choice: Lesson from Public and Private Schools (Greenwich, Conn.: Greenwood Press, forthcoming).
26. Joseph C. Harris, "A Plan to Pay for Catholic Schools," paper commissioned by the Future of Catholic Schools Project, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1997.