Closing chapters

By Thomas G. Welsh

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