'The Providence Effect': Astonishing Educational Achievement, 'The Way It Should Be Done'


	'The Providence Effect': Astonishing Educational Achievement, 'The Way It Should Be Done'

Antara

10-4-2009 5:31 AM

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education, discipline, learning, children, poverty, tough love, stuff that works

Antara says:

Looks great, might try to see this on my next trip over.

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10-4-2009 5:35 AM

Antara

When the Chicago Archdiocese
threatened to close the institution, he began a fundraising movement
that enabled him to buy the building, take the school private, and run
it so successfully that President Reagan came to visit. Twice.

10-4-2009 11:49 AM

willhelm

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