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Confrontation at Ocean Hill-Brownsvillereviewed by Bernard Mackler — 1970 Title: Confrontation at Ocean Hill-Brownsville Author(s): Maurice R. Berube, Marilyn Gittel Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: , Pages: , Year: Search for book at Amazon.com This year has been heralded all over town as the first year in
the last three that the schools have opened on the expected
date. This is the year for the Jets and Mets, but, for the schools,
last year was the year that was. Berube and Gittell have assembled
the major documents and viewpoints that describe what
happened at Ocean Hill-Brownsville, what led up to the three school
strikes of 1968-1969, and why school finally began in
mid-November.
The New York City schools have had their share of problems and
this book attempts to give a Rashomon version of what produced the
conflict and why. The editors chose a course that allows each
group, the UFT, the Board of Education, the local board of Ocean
Hill-Brownsville, to speak for themselves via public documents
authored by these various groups. After the documents are
presented, essays by such interested parties as Rhody McCoy,
Eugenia Kemble and Richard Karp present their own opinions. This
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- Bernard Mackler
Institute for Educational Development
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