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 schools.

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

Community and school.

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

Covello, Leonard, 1887-1982.

Covello, Leonard.

Physical Description:

ix, 362 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., 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 (p. [263]-351) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP credit line: Leonard Covello Papers (Mss. 40); Leonard Covello Photo Group (PG 107).

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

1592135218 (hardcover : alk. paper)

9781592135219 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

68799712