Sustaining the Heart: Attracting Latino Families to Inner-City Catholic Schools

Suhy, Thomas M.

doi:10.15365/joce.1502092013

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“…Some studies investigated curricular, community-based, or organizational interventions and programs designed to enhance the experiences of stakeholder groups in current Catholic schools (Beltramo, 2012;Gibbs et al, 2009;Madden, 2017;Palomino-Bach & Fisher, 2017;Proehl et al, 2013;Rieckhoff, 2014;Scanlan, 2017;Suhy, 2012). As established in previous sections, urban Catholic educators are very aware their schools have not consistently provided stakeholders supportive or educative environments, particularly the low-income communities and communities of color these schools consider themselves mission-bound to serve.…”

Section: Categories Of Reform Efforts Designed To Sustain the Legacy Of Urban Catholic Schoolingmentioning

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Examining the Legacy of Urban Catholic Schooling in the U.S.: A Systematic Literature Review

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Research conducted in the twentieth century found urban Catholic schools in the U.S. had a legacy of providing high quality educational opportunities for low-income students and students of color. In an era of declining Catholic school enrollments, urban Catholic school advocates have argued that urban Catholic school closures would deny these students one of the best educational opportunities available to them. However, there have been few attempts in recent years to synthesize research in, on, and about urban Catholic schools to see if the sector's historical legacy is still present. In this article, we systematically reviewed 80 recently published empirical research studies focused at some level on the effects, operations, and reforms currently present in urban Catholic education. We found that while positive effects of urban Catholic schools on student outcomes can still be identified, these effects are not consistently present in all urban Catholic schools and there is little evidence to suggest that the sector as a whole has enacted the social justice mission for which it is best known. In light of these findings, we conclude our review with suggestions for future research that connects urban Catholic schooling to contemporary issues present across all U.S. urban education.

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Section: Categories Of Reform Efforts Designed To Sustain the Legacy Of Urban Catholic Schoolingmentioning

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Examining the Legacy of Urban Catholic Schooling in the U.S.: A Systematic Literature Review

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“…Catholic parents who attended church regularly were more likely to send their children to Catholic school (Sander, 2005). In the Latino community, Suhy (2012) found that urban parents had a strong preference for Catholic education for their children. Furthermore, Sander (2001) stated that people who had attended a Catholic school were more likely to regularly attend Mass, pray daily, and retain their Catholic identity as adults.…”

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Organizational Effectiveness Across Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Detroit

Pogodzinski¹

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting

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To help inform continuous improvement efforts across Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Detroit (AOD), the Catholic Identity Program Effectiveness Surveys were administered to parents, students, and faculty/staff across schools in the AOD during Winter 2018. This work sought to identify variation in responses across respondents and schools. Additionally, we sought to identify an association between the survey responses and enrollment trends across schools.Our findings show some significant differences in responses across the domains of the survey as well as across respondent type. The initial analysis found no statistically significant association between measures of organizational climate and enrollment trends, though we acknowledge limitations in the data and call for continued research in this regard.

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“…And for the first time, the number of 18-to 24-year-old Latino youth enrolled in college exceeded two million, reaching a record 16.5% of all college enrollments (Fry & Lopez, 2012). As students in nursery school progress through kindergarten and into elementary school and high school, Latino students are expected to become an even larger share of all school enrollments, including Catholic schools-where today only 15% of the students are identified as Latino (NCEA, 2015) and only 3% of all Latino students enrolled in elementary and secondary education attend Catholic schools (Suhy, 2012). 7 In the last decade, the graduation rates for Latino students across the country have improved.…”

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Latinos, Education, and the Church: Toward a Culturally Democratic Future

Darder

2016

JOCE

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The article provides a comprehensive critical analysis of key issues that are deeply salient to an examination of the relationship of Latinos, education, and the Church. The status of Latinos and their educational participation in the US is systematically presented through a critical theoretical lens that brings questions of historical, political, and economic inequalities and their consequences to the center of this interpretive interrogation. With this foundational piece in place, the article moves to the concept of cultural democracy as an important philosophical principle in our work to transform the education of Latino children within Catholic schools and beyond. The role and responsibility of the Church is linked here to proclamations offered by Pope Francis toward revolutionizing the labor of the Catholic Church and Catholic education in an effort to more effectively engage with the pedagogical needs of Latino communities. Moreover, the discussion employs a much needed critical philosophical lens that defies the presentation of recipes or prescriptions for how emancipatory education will look when achieved, but rather invites Catholic educators, scholars, and the leadership of the Church into deeper reflection and consideration of the culturally democratic dimension that must be integrated into Catholic social teaching, if we are to genuinely achieve the necessary structural changes required to ensure educational justice for all Latino students.

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Sustaining the Heart: Attracting Latino Families to Inner-City Catholic Schools

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Examining the Legacy of Urban Catholic Schooling in the U.S.: A Systematic Literature Review

Examining the Legacy of Urban Catholic Schooling in the U.S.: A Systematic Literature Review

Organizational Effectiveness Across Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Detroit

Latinos, Education, and the Church: Toward a Culturally Democratic Future

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