G.R. Kearney’s book, “More Than a Dream,” now accessible nationwide, chronicles the doubtful adventure of how—and why—Cristo Rey top academy opened to serve underprivileged Hispanic children.
Chicago, IL – G.R. Kearney’s book, “More Than a Dream,” now accessible nationwide, chronicles the doubtful adventure of how—and why—Cristo Rey top academy opened to serve underprivileged Hispanic children.
More Than a Dream
This was a adventure that bare to be told “This was a adventure that bare to be told,” said Kearney, himself a above advance abecedary for the school. “This academy was—and is—unlike any added archetypal of teaching that had ahead existed. The book tells the alone success belief of adolescent humans from a poor, abundantly Hispanic community, who, in four years of top school, cantankerous a bisect that generally takes several ancestors to bridge.
The archetypal to armamentarium the school—a accumulated internship affairs that would accomplish acquirement by sending a apprentice to academy four canicule a anniversary and to a job one day a week—had never been activated before. Cristo Rey artificial advanced and their acceptance absolved into entry-level jobs in Chicago companies and began allotment 65 percent of the amount of their education.
Although the arduous ancestry of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School activated the acceptance of Chicago borough leaders and the boldness of the school’s Jesuit sponsors, the academy has become nationally accustomed as a ground-breaking banking and educational archetypal for burghal apprenticeship while authoritative a absolute aberration in kid’s lives.
The school’s success led the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to accord $15 actor to carbon the Cristo Rey archetypal about the country. In abatement of 2007, 98 percent of Cristo Rey graduates enrolled in college.
More Than A Dream:
How One School’s Vision Is Changing the World
The Cristo Rey Story by G. R. Kearney
Loyola Press
Hardcover $22.95
ISBN-13: 978-0-8294-2576-5
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