Inside Ocean Hill-Brownsville : a teacher's education, 1968-69 / Charles S. Isaacs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Isaacs, Charles S., 1945- author.

Series:

Excelsior Editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Isaacs, Charles S., 1945-.

Isaacs, Charles S.

Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District (New York, N.Y.).

Strikes and lockouts--Teachers--New York (State)--New York.

Strikes and lockouts.

Discrimination in education--New York (State)--New York.

Discrimination in education.

Teachers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : Excelsior Editions, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The story of an Ocean Hill-Brownsville teacher who crossed picket lines during the racially charged New York City teachers' strike of 1968.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Part I: Prelude to Confrontation""; ""Tales of Two Cities""; ""The Fight for Integration""; ""Where Are the Teachers?""; ""Boycotts and Dead Ends""; ""New Voices at a New School""; ""People Power in Brownsville""; ""An Experiment Is Born""; ""A Preemptive Summer""; ""Polarization""; ""The Governing Board Strikes Back""; ""Part II: Ten Weeks, Three Strikes""; ""Back to Brooklyn""; ""First Time at Bat""; ""The New �""; ""� Meets the Old""; ""Strike One""; ""A Rocky Return""; ""Strike Two""; ""Divisions Emerge""

""The UFT Rallies Against Mob Rule""""The Jewish Holidays""; ""An Experiment in Testing""; ""Escalation, Capitulation, Resistance""; ""Walkout""; ""A Brief Case Study in Manufactured History""; ""The “Settlement� Unravels""; ""“Your Papers, Please!�""; ""An Accidental Arrest""; ""“Now Play Nice Together�""; ""Strike Three, Week One""; ""Eye of the Storm""; ""Crossing the Lines""; ""The Leaflet Controversy""; ""Is This What You Want For Your Children? The Uft Says No!""; ""The Wright Stuff""; ""Teaching Future Teachers""; ""Teacher Evaluations""; ""Too Little, Too Late""

""The Strike Is Settled""""Part III: The Vise Tightens""; ""Not Back to Normal""; ""Nauman Returns, Sort Of""; ""Trespass""; ""The Synagogue Fires""; ""Johnson�s Welcome Wears Him Out""; ""Facing Down Firman""; ""Chaos to Camelot""; ""The January Offensive""; ""Vann and Campbell Meet the Press""; ""Mr. Singer�s Visit""; ""The Principal Returns and Teachers Leave""; ""The ADL Report""; ""Dissent and Rebuttal""; ""Thoughts on the Black/Jewish Divide""; ""Martin Mayer Spins a Tale""; ""Homeroom Math""; ""Getting the Right Answer""; ""The Splits Widen""; ""The Madison Project""

""Civil Liberties Revisited""""A Downhill Slide""; ""The Season of Student Revolts""; ""Signs of a Feud""; ""Decentralization Debacle""; ""Choosing Sides""; ""Enter the Republic""; ""He Said, He Said""; ""The Empire Strikes Back""; ""Implosion""; ""Graduation Day""; ""Part IV: Aftermath""; ""Brownsville Battles On""; ""Jews, Whites, and Others""; ""Decentralization Reaps What Was Sown""; ""The Bloomberg Era""; ""Miracle or Mirage""; ""Testing and Its Discontents""; ""The End Product""; ""Coda""; ""Notes""; ""Illustration Credits""; ""Sources""; ""Books""; ""Journal Articles and Papers""

""Reports and Position Papers""""Court Decisions""; ""Newspapers, Newsletters, and Magazines""; ""Interviews""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438452975

1438452977

OCLC:

1055379014