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Educating an urban people : the New York City experience /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Conference on Needs and Opportunities for the Study of Educational History in New York City Teachers College, Columbia University, Columbia University. Teachers College. Institute of Philosophy and Politics of Education
Other Authors: Ravitch, Diane, Goodenow, Ronald K.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, 1981.
Subjects:
Education, Urban > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century > Study and teaching > United States > Congresses.
Minorities > Education > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century > Study and teaching > United States > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • Practical synthesis in urban educational history : some needs and opportunities / Ronald K. Goodenow
  • Why study New York? / Diane Ravitch
  • Education and the black community in nineteenth-century Brooklyn / David M. Ment
  • Continuity and discontinuity in black and immigrant minority education in urban America : a historical assessment / Vincent P. Franklin
  • Multicultural education in the New York City public schools, 1919-1941 / Nicholas V. Montalto
  • New Yorkers in prosperity and depression : a preliminary reconnaissance / Thomas Kessner
  • The open city : Jews, jobs, and schools in New York City, 1880-1915 / Selma Berrol
  • Roman Catholics and the school question in New York City : some suggestions for research / James W. Sanders
  • Education as exchange : a perspective derived from women's history / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
  • The city as school : female voluntary societies, 1800-1860 / Barbara J. Berg
  • Unfulfilled dreams : thoughts on progressive education and the New York City schools, 1900-1978 / Peter L. Buttenwieser
  • Teacher organizations in New York City, 1905-1920 / Wayne J. Urban
  • Teachers divided : teacher unionism in New York City, 1935-1940 / Thomas R. Brooks
  • The interests of the teachers union, 1913-1935 / Lana D. Muraskin
  • Urban education and collaborative scholarship / Paul H. Mattingly
  • Writing an educational history of New York City : some observations / Marvin Lazerson
  • "If all the world were New York" : an agenda for educational history in the big apple / Carl F. Kaestle.