Full Description
How can we educate students to be better citizens?
Contents
Introduction Part One: Contexts and Social Forces 1 The Community School Idea; 2 East Harlem in the Early 1930s: Constraints and Opportunities; 3 Leonard Covello: The Heart of the Matter Part Two: The Making of Benjamin Franklin High School 4 The High School on East 108th Street; 5 Community Schooling for Cultural Democracy: Premises and First Steps; 6 The East Harlem Campaigns; 7 The High School on Pleasant Avenue Part Three: The Community School Idea since World War II 8 Drift and Renewal; 9 Covello in Contemporary Perspective: Learning from the Past