Leonard Covello and the making of Benjamin Franklin High School : education as if citizenship mattered / Michael C. Johanek, John L. Puckett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johanek, Michael C.

Contributor:

Puckett, John L., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community schools--New York (State)--New York.

Community and school--New York (State)--New York.

Community and school.

Community schools.

New York (State)--New York.

Benjamin Franklin High School (New York, N.Y.).

Covello, Leonard, 1887-1982.

Penn Provenance:

Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014 (former owner) (Storage copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 362 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Contexts and social forces

The community school idea

East Harlem in the early 1930s

Leonard Covello : the heart of the matter

The making of Benjamin Franklin High School

The high school on East 108th Street

Community schooling for cultural democracy : premises and first steps

The East Harlem campaigns

The high school on Pleasant Avenue

The community school idea since World War II

Drift and renewal

Learning from the past.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-351) and index.

ISBN:

1592135218

9781592135219

1592135226

9781592135226

OCLC:

68799712

Publisher Number:

9781592135219