{"id":36663,"date":"2013-01-08T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/patrick_mccloskey_and_joseph_harris_roman_catholic_education_in_need_of_sal\/"},"modified":"2013-01-08T19:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T19:00:49","slug":"patrick_mccloskey_and_joseph_harris_roman_catholic_education_in_need_of_sal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36663","title":{"rendered":"Patrick McCloskey and Joseph Harris: Roman Catholic Education, in Need of Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic  parochial education is in crisis. More than a third of parochial schools in the United States closed between 1965 and 1990, and enrollment fell by more than half. After stabilizing in the 1990s, enrollment has plunged despite strong demand from students and families.<\/p>\n<p> Closings of elementary and middle schools have become a yearly ritual in the Northeast and Midwest, home to two-thirds of the nation\u2019s Catholic schools. Last year, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia closed one-fifth of its elementary schools. Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the archbishop of New York, is expected to decide soon whether to shut 26 elementary schools and one high school, less than three years after the latest closings. Catholic high schools have held on, but their long-term future is in question.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t for want of students&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/07\/opinion\/catholic-education-in-need-of-salvation.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic parochial education is in crisis. More than a third of parochial schools in the United States closed between 1965 and 1990, and enrollment fell by more than half. After stabilizing in the 1990s, enrollment has plunged despite strong demand<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36663\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,209,101,111,154,108,364,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-education","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}