The accolades keep comin'! We see that George Will has written yet??ANOTHER column??citing David Whitman's new book (published by Fordham) "Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism".??Will focuses his praise this time on Cristo Rey Jesuit High School--one of the six highly effective, "no excuse" schools Whitman profiles in his book.
CRJHS's unique work-study program sends students one day a week to clerical jobs in downtown Chicago law firms, banks and other businesses--exposing many of them to an entirely new world. "Before going to work, many of the school's 14-year-old ninth-graders, like their parents, have never been downtown," Will writes. In the end, he argues that CRJHS's traits--including the work-study program and its zero tolerance of disorder (from gang symbols down to chewing gum)--are possible "because [they are] not shackled by bureaucracy or unions, as public schools are."
You can find Will's first column highlighting Whitman's book??here.