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P.S. 25, South Bronx: Bilingual Education And Community Control, Laura J. Kaplan
P.S. 25, South Bronx: Bilingual Education And Community Control, Laura J. Kaplan
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Through a methodology of oral history interviews with primary subjects and archival research, this dissertation explores the creation and evolution of P.S. 25, The Bilingual School, the first Spanish-English bilingual elementary school in New York City, as well as the entire Northeast. The Bilingual School, founded in 1968, was a product of the civil rights movement in the United States and one key manifestation of that movement in New York City, the struggle for community control of schools.
Latinos in general and Puerto Ricans in particular have been written out of the official narrative of the educational civil rights movement …