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    Putting Education to Work: How Cristo Rey High Schools Are Transforming Urban Education
    Putting Education to Work: How Cristo Rey High Schools Are Transforming Urban Education
    Putting Education to Work: How Cristo Rey High Schools Are Transforming Urban Education
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    Putting Education to Work: How Cristo Rey High Schools Are Transforming Urban Education

    By Megan Sweas

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    The story of how The Cristo Rey Network’s values-based education model and revolutionary work study program have improved urban schools and inspired education reform across the nation.

    Combining the latest advancements in instruction, a focus on spiritual values and character development, and an innovative work-study program, the Cristo Rey Network has reinvented urban education and revived a broken system. Catholic school for the twenty-first century, Cristo Rey offers underprivileged students the opportunities they deserve and the structure and committed teachers they need to succeed and build a better life.

    Filled with amazing stories of hardship and transformation, Putting Education to Work is a testimonial to the effectiveness of the Cristo Rey program, demonstrated through the lives of its students. Thanks to its rigorous college-prep curriculum and real-life job experience, students become “lifelong learners” who graduate with critical thinking skills and the experience needed for college and the work force. But the Cristo Rey education is not limited to the mind. Focusing on character growth, it ensures the formation of a “whole person” who understands his or her role in helping others.

    Presenting the lessons learned along the way, Putting Education to Work shows how any school—religious or secular—can benefit from the Cristo Rey model and offers a hopeful outlook of what young people and determined educators can achieve together.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 19, 2014
    ISBN9780062288035
    Putting Education to Work: How Cristo Rey High Schools Are Transforming Urban Education
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    Megan Sweas

    Megan Sweas is a journalist who writes about social and economic justice issues and world religions. She previously was an editor at U.S. Catholic magazine. Sweas was an Annenberg Fellow at the University of Southern California, where she earned a master's degree in specialized journalism. She graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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