Trends in Catholic School Minority Enrollment and Higher Education Entrance Over the Recession

The Interactional Production of Race and Religious Identity in an Urban Catholic School

“…Given the unique racial and religious landscape of contemporary urban Catholic schooling (Louie & Holdaway, 2009;Setari & Setari, 2016), it is an ideal site to investigate the discursive production of issues around race, religion, and identity. This analysis outlines the outworking of various circulating 5 "Option for the Poor and Vulnerable: In our world, many people are very rich while many are extremely poor.…”

“…This has, for some scholars, provoked a crisis of mission for Catholic schools, who no longer exclusively educate Catholics (cf., Baker & Riordan, 1998;Burke, 2012;Burke & Gilbert, 2016). Nearly one quarter of the students currently attending Catholic schools (including urban and suburban elite) are from minority backgrounds, and 8.66% are African American, few of whom are Catholic (Setari & Setari, 2016). In part because of increasing Catholic suburbanization ( Jacobs, 2010), contemporary US Catholic schools are in a precarious position (Youniss & Convey, 2000), the winds of change in the form of school choice, decreased enrolment, and increased tuition fees blowing at the walls.…”

The ups and downs of reading across content areas: The association between instruction and fluctuations in reading motivation.

“…Our sample of urban parochial settings may reduce generalizability for other studies with different samples, yet importantly these schools demographically resembled their public school counterparts in the same urban neighborhoods. That is, students in these schools, similar to their neighborhood public-school going peers, were largely from low-income family backgrounds and were largely minority students (Louie & Holdaway, 2009; National Catholic Educational Association, 2014; Setari & Setari, 2016). Our participating schools resembled their public school peers in the surrounding dense urban region with regard to teacher-student ratios, number of teachers hired yearly, and number of teachers with master’s degrees (National Center for Education Statistics, 2018).…”