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Miracle on High Street ─ The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J.
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Just Outside Downtown Newark, New Jersey, sits an abbey and school. For more than 150 years Benedictine monks have lived, worked, and prayed on High Street, a once-grand thoroughfare that became Newark's Skid Row and a focal point of the 1967 riots.
St. Benedict's Preparatory School today has become a model of a successful inner-city school, with 95 percent of its graduates---mainly African American and Latino boys---going on to college. Miracle on High Street is the story of how the monks of St. Benedict's Prep transformed their venerable yet outdated school to become a thriving part of the community that helped save a faltering city.
In the 1960s, after a trinity of woes---massive deindustrialization, high-speed suburbanization, and racial violence---caused an exodus from Newark, St. Benedict's struggled to remain open. Enrollment in general dwindled, and fewer students enrolled from the surronding community.
The monks watched the violence of the 1967 riots from the school's rooftop along High Street. In the riot's aftermath more families fled what some called "the worst city in America."
The school closed in 1972, in what seemed to be just another demise of an urban Catholic school. A few monks, inspired by the Benedictine virtues of stability and adaptability, reopened St. Benedict's only one year later with a bare-bones staff. Their new mission was to provide young African American and Latino males with the same opportunities that German and Irish immigrants had had 150 years before.
More than thirty years later, St. Benedict's is one of the most unusual schools in the country. Its remarkable success shows that American education can bridge the achievement gap between white and black, as well as that between rich and poor. The story of St. Benedict's is about an institution's rise and fall, resurrection and renaissance. It also provides valuable insights into American religious, immigration, educational, and metropolitan history. By staying true to their historical values amid a continually changing city, the downtown monks, in resurrecting their school, helped save an American city.
Some have even called it the miracle on High Street.
St. Benedict's Preparatory School today has become a model of a successful inner-city school, with 95 percent of its graduates---mainly African American and Latino boys---going on to college. Miracle on High Street is the story of how the monks of St. Benedict's Prep transformed their venerable yet outdated school to become a thriving part of the community that helped save a faltering city.
In the 1960s, after a trinity of woes---massive deindustrialization, high-speed suburbanization, and racial violence---caused an exodus from Newark, St. Benedict's struggled to remain open. Enrollment in general dwindled, and fewer students enrolled from the surronding community.
The monks watched the violence of the 1967 riots from the school's rooftop along High Street. In the riot's aftermath more families fled what some called "the worst city in America."
The school closed in 1972, in what seemed to be just another demise of an urban Catholic school. A few monks, inspired by the Benedictine virtues of stability and adaptability, reopened St. Benedict's only one year later with a bare-bones staff. Their new mission was to provide young African American and Latino males with the same opportunities that German and Irish immigrants had had 150 years before.
More than thirty years later, St. Benedict's is one of the most unusual schools in the country. Its remarkable success shows that American education can bridge the achievement gap between white and black, as well as that between rich and poor. The story of St. Benedict's is about an institution's rise and fall, resurrection and renaissance. It also provides valuable insights into American religious, immigration, educational, and metropolitan history. By staying true to their historical values amid a continually changing city, the downtown monks, in resurrecting their school, helped save an American city.
Some have even called it the miracle on High Street.
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Thomas A. McCabe is Visiting Professor in the History Department at Rutgers University---Newark, where he teaches seminars on race and ethnicity in the United States and American cities and suburbs. McCabe received his Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University in 2006. Previously, he worked as an administrator and teacher at St. Benedict's for more than 15 years.
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