Closing chapters

By Thomas G. Welsh

Subjects: Sociology, Katholische Kirche, Children & Youth, Catholics, RELIGION / Christian Education / Children & Youth, Elementary schools, Catholics, united states, Urban Education, Urban education, Ohio, social conditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, EDUCATION / Elementary, Grundschule, RELIGION, Education, united states, history, Elementary, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Catholic, EDUCATION, Christianity, Education, urban, Religious identity, History, Catholic elementary schools, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, Christian Education, Urban

Description: "Closing Chapters attempts to explain the disintegration of urban parochial schools in Youngstown, Ohio, a onetime industrial center that lost all but one of its eighteen Catholic parochial elementary schools between 1960 and 2006. Through the examination of Youngstown, Welsh sheds light on a significant national phenomenon: the fragmentation of American Catholic identity"--