11. Harlem Schools in the Fiscal Crisis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART ONE. Debating What and How Harlem Students Learn in the Renaissance and Beyond
7. 1. Schooling the New Negro: Progressive Education, Black Modernity, and the Long Harlem Renaissance 31
8. 2. “A Serious Pedagogical Situation”: Diverging School Reform Priorities in Depression- Era Harlem 55
9. 3. Wadleigh High School: The Price of Segregation 77
10. PART TWO. Organizing, Writing, and Teaching for Reform in the 1930s Through the 1950s
11. 4. Cinema for Social Change: The Human Relations Film Series of the Harlem Committee of the Teachers Union, 1936–1950 103
12. 5. Bringing Harlem to the Schools: Langston Hughes’s The First Book of Negroes and Crafting a Juvenile Readership 119
13. 6. Harlem Schools and the New York City Teachers Union 138
14. PART THREE. Divergent Educational Visions in the Activist 1960s and 1970s
15. 7. HARYOU: An Apprenticeship for Young Leaders 161
16. 8. Intermediate School 201: Race, Space, and Modern Architecture in Harlem 183
17. 9. Black Power as Educational Renaissance: The Harlem Landscape 210
18. 10. “Harlem Sophistication”: Community- Based Paraprofessional Educators in Central Harlem and East Harlem 234
19. PART FOUR. Post– Civil Rights Setbacks and Structural Alternatives
20. 11. Harlem Schools in the Fiscal Crisis 257
21. 12. Pursuing “Real Power to Parents”: Babette Edwards’s Activism from Community Control to Charter Schools 276
22. 13. Teaching Harlem: Black Teachers and the Changing Educational Landscape of Twenty- First-Century Central Harlem 298
23. Conclusion 328
24. Contributors 339
25. Index 343