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Author: Lewis, Heather
ISBN: 9780807754511

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When New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg centralized control of the city's schools in 2002, he terminated the city's 32-year experiment with decentralized school control dubbed by the mayor and the media as the "Bad Old Days." Decentralization grew out of the community control movement of the 1960s, which was itself a response to the "bad old days" of central control of a school system that was increasingly segregated and unequal.

In this probing historical account, Heather Lewis draws on new archival sources and oral histories to argue that the community control movement did influence school improvement, particularly in African American and Puerto Rican communities in the 1970s and 80s. Lewis shows how educators with unique insights into the relationships between the schools and the communities they served enabled meaningful change, with a focus on instructional improvement and equity that would be familiar to many observers of contemporary education reform. With a resurgence of local organizing and potential challenges to mayoral control, this informative history will be important reading for today's educational and community leaders.

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Title New York City Public Schools from Brownsville to Bloomberg: Community Control and Its Legacy
Author Heather Lewis
Binding Paperback
Pages 216
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Teachers College Press
Publication date 2013
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780807754511 / 080775451X
Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
Category Education / Teaching
Library of Congress subjects Education - New York (State) - New York -, Community and school - New York (State) -
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013012439
Dewey Decimal Code 371.010

About the author

Heather Lewis is an associate professor of urban history and education at Pratt Institute.

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